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Author(s):	Zumeta, W., and Frankle, D
Title:	California Community Colleges: Making them stronger and more affordable
Source:	http://www.highereducation.org/reports/calcc/ca...
Date:	2007
Organization:	National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Short Description:	This study finds that many California community college students struggle with finances and recommends modest fee increases to support increased financial aid and changes to improve student persistence and success.
Annotation:	The strategy of the California Community Colleges to ensure affordability is to keep fees as low as possible. This study finds, however, that many community college students still struggle with finances and recommends modest fee increases to support increased financial aid for the rising non-fee costs of attendance and changes to improve student persistence and success.
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Community Colleges

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Educational Attainment/College Degree Completion

Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs

Improving Postsecondary Student Success

Low-Income Students

Persistence/Retention

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National Center for Academic Transformation

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Spring issue

State Higher Education Finance FY 2009

Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)

Altered state: How the Virginia community college system has used Achieving the Dream to improve student success

CollegeMeasures.org

College graduation rates: Behind the numbers

Why is college so expensive?

On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006

The return on the federal investment in for-profit education: Debt without a diploma

Easy come - EZ-GO: A federal role in removing jurisdictional impediments to college education

How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges

How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup

A smart move in tough times: How SREB states can strengthen adult learning and the work force

Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries

Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?

Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)

Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials

Investing in education and equity: Our nation's best future

The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook

Tuition equity legislation: Investing in Colorado high school graduates through equal opportunity to postsecondary education

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes

Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda

Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2006; Graduation rates, 2000 and 2003 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2006

Imagine success: Engaging entering students

Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges

The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability

Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out

A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management

Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison

National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation

From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus

IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle

Basics of longitudinal cohort analysis: Principles and practices of student success

Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success

Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success

Achieving the Dream: Evidence of change

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010

Financial education in TRIO programs

Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity

Promising practices: What works in the Midwest: New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs

American community colleges and the academic crisis of basic skills: Adult student success

Global Skills for Global Completion

Rising to the challenge: Hispanic college graduation rates as a national priority

Open-access colleges responsible for greatest gains in graduation rates

The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education

Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college

Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education

Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report

Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success

Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth

Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study

Strong students, strong workers: Models for student success through workforce development and community college partnerships

Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis

Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative

Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do

Catching the Dream

Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities

California trends in student aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04

Financial aid issues for students from low income families

Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana

Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity

Engines of inequality: Diminishing equity in the nation's premier public universities

A research agenda for the study of the effects of borrowing and the prospects of indebtedness on students' college-going choices

Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates

The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects

Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?

Just and efficient college finance

An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace

Equal access to postsecondary education? The case of undocumented immigrant students

What we know about access and success in postsecondary education: Informing Lumina Foundation's strategic direction

Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education

Transitions to college: From theory to practice

Show us the money: Low-income students, families, and financial aid

Part I: Barriers to student success on college campuses

Increasing success for underserved students: Redesigning introductory courses

Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04

Lifelong learning: New strategies for the education of working adults

Condition of education 2008

Promising practices for community college developmental education

Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students

Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students

In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

Delta project on postsecondary education costs, productivity, and accountability

What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities

Achievement and attainment in Chicago charter schools

Crafting a new vision for high school: How states can join academic and technical studies to promote more powerful learning

Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability

Is student success labeled institutional failure? Student goals and graduation rates in the accountability debate at community colleges

Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006

Access to success initiative

Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college

Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?

Manchester College: Fast forward program

College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education

Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities

Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)

Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative

Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today

Money on the table: State initiatives to improve financial aid participation

AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students

Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A

Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004

Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006

Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana

Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

The Aspen Prize for community college excellence

Prison vs. Princeton

Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey

The economic value of opportunity youth

Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed

Sealing the gaps: Supporting low-income, first-generation students at four-year institutions in Texas post-transfer

Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning

The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications

Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students

Lifting the fog on inequitable financial aid policies: A companion brief to priced out: How the wrong financial aid policies hurt low-income students

Experimental evidence on the effect of childhood investments on postsecondary attainment and degree completion

New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states

Leveraging data for college completion

Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)

Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education

State HIgher Education Finance 2011

Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods

Why access matters: The community college student body

Assets & opportunity scorecard

Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions

Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2010; Financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07

Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment

Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion

Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges

Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education

Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary

AACC statement on the American Enterprise Institute's "Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates"

Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam

Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges

Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) self-assessment tool

2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)

Scaling community college interventions

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)

How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)

Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative

Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves

Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges

Affirming the goal: Is college and career readiness an internationally competitive standard?

Trends in student aid 2011

Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion

Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty

Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series

The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda

Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08

Underserved students who earn credit through prior learning assessment have higher degree completion rates and shorter time-to-degree

High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges

Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs

A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative

A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth

One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010

Improving the college scorecard: Using student feedback to create an effective disclosure

Profile of 2007-08 first-time bachelor's degree recipients in 2009

"They never told me what to expect, so I didn't know what to do": Defining and clarifying the role of a community college student

Regardless of the cost, college still matters

The student debt crisis

Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers

Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students

Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house

What Works Clearinghouse review of the report "The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring"

From soldier to student II: Assessing campus programs for veterans and service members

California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion

A new classification scheme for for-profit institutions

Leaders & laggards: A state-by-state report card on public postsecondary education

Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education

The completion arch: Measuring community college student success

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level

Boosting postsecondary education performance

Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts

Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees

The condition of education 2012 (Report)

The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities

Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey

Measuring nontraditional student success: An imperative for colleges and universities

The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency

For profit higher education: The failure to safeguard the federal investment and ensure student success

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11

Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary

The competition that really matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese, and Indian investments in the next-generation workforce

Adult college completion toolkit

Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process

Trends in student aid 2012

Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation

Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males

A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth

Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates

Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions

Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan

Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports

Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011

Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment

The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy

Project WIn-Win

Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide

Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation

Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy

Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated

Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08

Trends in college pricing 2011

American Association of Community Colleges: Report on the 21st century initiative listening tour

Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education

School counselors literature and landscape review: The state of school counseling in America

Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34

Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era

Front and center: Critical choices for higher education

Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree

Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)

Developing 20/20 vision on the 2020 degree attainment goal: The threat of income based inequality in education

The bottom line: Ensuring that students and parents understand the net price of college

On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)

The educational experience of young men of color: Federal legal implications and policy guidance

The role of mentoring in college access and success

Aligning community colleges to their local labor markets: The emerging role of online job ads for providing real-time intelligence about occupations and skills in demand

From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems

The undereducated American

Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions

Latino college completion: Texas

New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED

Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class

Reclaiming the American Dream: Community colleges and the nation's future: A report from the 21st century commission on the future of community colleges

Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college

Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions

Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort

College Search Database.com

The middle class is key to a better-educated nation: A stronger middle class is associated with better educational outcomes

Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?

Cohort default rates in context

The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report

Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion

Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth

Know before you owe (student loans)

What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?

Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

Lumina Foundation for Education: Adult learners

Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers

College access in Indiana and the United States 2007: Improving college access and success for Indiana adults 25 and over

Federal Student Aid (FSA)

Institutional Student Profiles Fall 2006 for the State of Alabama

The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree

Improving educational opportunties for students who work

Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions

What works for Latino students

12 Ways adult students can pay for college

The growing importance of inherited educational opportunity

Enhancing student services at Owens Community College: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration in Ohio

Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students

Green lights and red tape: Improving access to financial aid at California's community colleges

Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream

Student success in college: Puzzle, pipeline, or pathway?

The postsecondary achievement of participants in dual enrollment: An analysis of student outcomes in two states

Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005

Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes

Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence

Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success

The national articulation and transfer network

No Child Left Behind: State report card 2005-2006

Constrained after college: Student loans and early career occupational choices

Student loans and public accountability

Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States

Transition matters: Community college to bachelor's degree

Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report

Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99

Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective

How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement

Engaging faculty and staff: An imperative for fostering retention, advising, and smart borrowing

The connection strategy: Preparing young people to succeed in college and beyond

Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions

Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008

Trends in college pricing 2008

Trends in student aid 2008

Measuring up 2008

Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges

The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution

The costs of failure factories in American higher education

Status and trends in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students

Building a data sharing network of scholarship programs for alumni of foster care

Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study

Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects

Lumina Foundation focus: Dreams detoured: Rising college costs alter plans and threaten futures

Lumina Foundation focus: Barrier busters: Community colleges and their students embrace challenges

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families

Making college affordable: A work-book on financial aid, loans, and scholarships for college-bound students and their families (Spanish version)

Diversity and persistence in Indiana higher education: The impact of preparation, major choices, and financial aid

American higher education: How does it measure up for the twenty-first century

Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education

Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals

Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve

Advisory committee on student financial assistance

Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004

Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success

Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies

State financial aid: Policies to enhance articulation and transfer

Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges

A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance

Pathways to a four-year degree: Determinants of transfer and degree completion

Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers

Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states

Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success

Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works

The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt

The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain

Do grants matter?

Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England

How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation

Student success: Understanding graduation and persistence rates

College success programs

Raising the graduation rates of low-income college students

A matter of degrees: Improving graduation rates in four-year colleges and universities

College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns

State of decline? Gaps in college access and achievement call for renewed commitment to educating Californians

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian education in the states

College rankings reformed: The case for a new order in higher education

An exploration of what we know about the formation and impact of perceptions of college prices, student aid, and the affordability of college-going and a prospectus for future research

The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students

Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms

Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness

Recent changes in the entry of Hispanic and White youth into college

Does public funding for higher education matter?

NDSFA: State financial aid and college access

Paying for persistence: Early results of a Louisiana scholarship program for low-income parents attending community college

American Indian Education Foundation: Tools for success scholarship handbook

Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences

Students entering and leaving postsecondary occupational education: 1995-2001

The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation

Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success

Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness

Strategies for improving student success in postsecondary education

Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college

Charter high schools: Closing the achievement gap

Collegiate learning assessement project

Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college

Latinos in graduate education

The context of "choice" in college pathways

Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

2009 What works for Latinos in higher education

Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions

Growing What Works Database

The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success

Higher education success among historically marginalized males

Rising by Degrees

Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary

The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition

“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research

Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students

Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students

Does money matter?

Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college

Expanding access and opportunity: The Washington State Achievers Program

Improving transfer access to STEM bachelor's degrees at Hispanic Serving Institutions through the America COMPETES Act

Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation

Student debt 101

Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds

CollegeFish.org

Calculating cost-return for investments in students success

College readiness issue brief: High expectations: A key to success for all

Accountability for equitable outcomes in higher education

The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes

A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity

Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum

Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Serving Latino students

Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis

Rethinking developmental education in community colleges

Loan forgiveness and tax deduction benefits for college admission counseling professionals

IDA Pays: Examining the potential of education IDAs

Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success

Quick facts about financial aid and community colleges, 2007-08

Lumina Foundation Focus: No more kid stuff: Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students

Latinos and education: Explaining the attainment gap

Improving lives: State and federal programs for low-income adults (searchable database)

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Late stop-outs

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2008 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2007-08, and 12-month enrollment 2007-08

Are student employment and academic success linked?

Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Community college transfer and articulation policies: Looking beneath the surface

Opportunity.gov

Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation

Collecting survey data for assessment: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes

Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment

Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training

Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09

Doing more with less: The inequitable funding of community colleges

Understanding the working college student

Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success

What impacts student success in college persistence and completion?

A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000

Services to students with disabilities: A study of workload and costs

California community college transfer rates: Who is counted makes a difference

A gathering force: A survey of two cohorts of Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholars

Major differences: Explaining student engagement by field of study: Annual results 2010

The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students

How America saves for college: 2010

The course of innovation: Using technology to transform higher education

Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale

Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school

Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students

Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up

High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California

Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement

Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy

The impact of "going green" on the Latino community

"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children

After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid

Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap

Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process

Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults

Winning the future: Improving education for the Latino community

Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans

Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes

Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college

More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates

Everybody ready for college

Lumina Foundation Focus: Discerning learning: Colleges find new ways to show what students know

Accountability & continuous improvement in remedial education: Getting Past Go Project

Data tools for accelerating Latino student success (ALASS)

Degrees for what jobs? Raising expectations for colleges and universities in a global economy

Changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents

Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education

College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success

Bringing adults back to college: Designing and implementing a statewide concierge model

The (un)productivity of American higher education: From cost "dis-ease"to cost effectiveness

We dream a world: The 2025 vision for black men and boys

Momentum: Sustaining efforts to improve life outcomes among African-American males

Which students to serve? Universal or targeted eligibility for postsecondary opportunity programs

Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce

What works in student retention 2010

HBCU distance learning 2010

College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy

Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector

Persistence and attainment of 2003–04 beginning postsecondary students: After six years

The rise of college student borrowing

Access/Acceso: Rising to the challenge of improving higher education opportunities for Latinos

Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it

Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?

Time to completion: States and systems must tackle the time dilemma

The degree qualifications profile

Illinois adult education bridge evaluation: Technical report

Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2009; Graduation rates, 2003 & 2006 cohorts; and financial statistics, Fiscal Year 2009

Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011

Tracking students to 200 percent of normal time: Effect on institutional graduation rates

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why college graduates are not getting good jobs

Keeping score when it counts: Graudation success and academic progress rates for the 2011 NCAA Division1 men's basketball tournament teams

State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11

Trends in the receipt of Pell Grants: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08

Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

High expectations and strong supports yield postsecondary success

DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed

Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs

Students speak! Understanding the value of HBCUs from student perspectives

Facilitating student learning through contextualization

Greening community colleges: An environmental path to improving educational outcomes

Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college

What should count? Frontline perspectives on student success and college accountability

School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups

Aligning education and workforce goals to foster economic development

The College Completion Agenda

Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals

High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)

Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together

Beyond the rhetoric: Improving college readiness through coherent state policy

Improving education through collaboration: A case study of the Long Beach seamless education partnership

Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth

Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education

Community College 2.0

Increasing college success: A roadmap for governors

The relationship between AP exam performance and college outcomes

Foster youth who have succeeded in higher education: Common themes

The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses

Federal Student Aid strategic plan: FY 2011-15

Web tables - trends in undergraduate stafford loan borrowing: 1989-90 to 2007-08

The 'bottom' seventy percent: What America's elite institutions of higher learning owe to everyone else

Grantmakers for Education

For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices

Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems

Financial aid consultants and scholarship search services fact sheet

The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality

Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges

10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters

Cracking the books: Policy measures to contain textbook costs

The public realities of private student loans

Center for College Affordability and Productivity

Financial aid in theory and practice

2007-08 National postsecondary student aid study (NPSAS:08): Student financial aid estimates for 2007-08

Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment

From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions

National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice

The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment

Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today

Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college

Trends in student aid 2009

Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Assistance (MESA) -- Annual Report 2007

An analysis of section 529 college savings and prepaid tuition plans

Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion

How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae

How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)

Financing higher education: A myriad of problems, a myriad of solutions

Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education

IDAs and financial aid: Understanding the puzzle and sharing best practices

New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design

College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy

Serving those who serve: Higher education and America's veterans

Core commitments of participating (Achieving the Dream) colleges

2009 Student retention practices and strategies at four-year and two-year institutions

Achieving success: The state policy newsletter of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count: Winter 2010

Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education

College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success

Building a campus support network for students emerging from foster care

Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed

The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males

Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know

The quality imperative: Match ambitious goals for college attainment with an ambitious vision for learning

Leadership to enhance college access and success

Improving access to higher education by promoting saving

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates for 2010 NCAA men's division 1 basketball tournament teams

Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2009-10 bowl-bound college football teams - academic performance improves but race still matters

Graduated success: Sustainable economic opportunity through one- and two-year credentials

Canadian college student finances: Second edition

The price of knowledge 2004: Access and student finance in Canada

Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys

Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada

Canadian college student finances: Third edition (2005)

State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college

The Canadian student financial aid system: The case for modernization

Investing in their future: A survey of student and parental support for learning

A family affair: The impact of paying for college or university

Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers

Time to Completion Web Site

Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college

Latinos in undergraduate education

Looking to the future: Volunatary K-12 school integration

Act on fact: Using data to improve student success

Pre-K and Latinos: The foundation for America's future

Proven benefits of early childhood interventions

Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study

Successful bilingual schools: Six effective programs in California

Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment

College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid

Going to the source: A practical way to simplify the FAFSA

Student debt: Bigger and bigger

Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization

Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward

Campus-based student financial aid programs under the higher education act

Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college

The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success

Career academies: Impacts on labor market outcomes and educational attainment

Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas

Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)

College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?

The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention

Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges

Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach

Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary

Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity

Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience

Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program

NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Data Archive

Reflections on college access and persistence

Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study

Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act

2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states

CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success

Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid

Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment

Trends in college pricing 2006

Debt burden: Repaying student debt

Empty promises: The myth of college access in America

The first year experience: Are we making it any better

Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century

Trends in student aid 2003

Who should we help? The negative social consequences of merit aid scholarships

2003 status report on the Pell grant program

Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults

Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated

Paying for college: Changes between 1990 and 2000 for full-time dependent undergraduates

When saving means losing: Weighing the benefits of college-savings plans

Rhetoric and reality: Effects and consequences of the HOPE scholarship

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2005 status report

Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences

The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education

Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students

Persistence among first-generation college students in Indiana: The impact of precollege preparation, college experiences, and financial aid

Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid

Federal student loan debt:1993-2004

State higher education finance: FY 2004

Waiting to attend college: Students who delay postsecondary enrollment

NCHEMS information center

Swimming against the tide: The poor in American higher education

Financial aid: A shared agenda to achieve access and success for under-served students

One step from the finish line: Higher college graduation rates are within our reach

Mexican Americans and other Latinos in postsecondary education: Institutional influences

Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success

Crucial choices: How students financial decisions affect their academic success

How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000

Public attitudes on higher education

What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program

What community college practices and policies are effective in promoting student success: A study of high- and low-impact institutions

Internet inequalities: Financial aid, the internet, and low-income students

Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems

Convergence: Trends threatening to narrow college opportunity in America

Access and persistence: Fall 2005

What students pay for college: Changes in net price of college attendance between 1992-93 and 1999-2000

Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty

The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access

Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability

Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007

Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't

It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success

Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later

The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students

Early and often: Designing a comprehensive system of financial aid information

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer

Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)

Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?

Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature

Reaching higher with affordability (working paper)

State merit aid programs: Responses by Florida community colleges

Indiana Chafee Education and Training Voucher (ETV) Program

Orphan Foundation of America

Enrollment status and outcomes

2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service

Who graduates in California?

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarships

Fast foward: Find your place - faster

More student success: A systemic solution

Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes

Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans

Higher education: Tuition continues to rise, but patterns vary by institution type, enrollment, and educational expenditures

Wrestling rising costs with innovation

Postsecondary Access and Success

A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students

Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students

Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities

Trends in student aid 2007

Camino de la universidad: The road to college

Cashing in or cashing out: Tools for measuring the effectiveness and outcomes of financial aid events

The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities

Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges: The all-American game

2007 Status report on the Pell Grant program

Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans

State of college opportunity in Ohio 2005

Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families

A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect

Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future

Institutional practices and student persistence: Extending the empirical record

The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research

U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement

Nontraditional undergraduates

Boosters, brokers, and bridges: Real world ideas for college access programs

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)

FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid

Condition of education 2002: Special analysis, nontraditional undergraduates

Digest of Education Statistics

The professional mentor program plus: An academic success and retention tool for adult learners

College: Making It Happen

Paying for college: A brief look at student financial aid programs

Financing asset building and financial education programs for youth transitioning out of foster care

The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood

The role of minority-serving institutions in national college completion goals

Making college more affordable: The president's plan to lower college tuition is a good first step but more can be done

Improving the odds for failing schools

Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs

Snapshot report: Mobility

Snapshot report: Concurrent enrollment

Middle-class societies invest more in public education: A stronger middle class is associated with higher levels of spending on education

Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model

Operation College Promise

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

Information constraints and financial aid policy

The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education

Tuition and Fees in the West 2011-12

Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce

Growing proportion of children in poverty means more education challenges

Washington state student achivement initiative: Achievement points analysis for academic years 2007-2011

Reforming the state's transfer progress on senate bill 1440

The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom

Refocusing adult education on career and postsecondary success: An analysis of adult education (Title II) in WIA reauthorization proposals

Action plan for improving measures of postsecondary student success

Ensuring America's Future - Sector briefs

Boosting college completion for a new economy

Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis

Reawakening the dream deferred: Can comprehensive intervention programs increase college awareness among at-risk students?

Higher education: Students at the heart of the system

Student lending's failing grade

Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04

A diversity action blueprint: Policy parameters and model practices for higher education institutions

Latino college completion: Pennsylvania

Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits

Turning points: A case study of family literacy-Community college partnerships

Promoting postsecondary educational success for adults and families-A practical partnership guide

Unfulfilled expectations: Recent college graduates struggle in a troubled economy

A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research

Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success

Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs

Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce

The college completion agenda: 2011 Progress report: Latino edition

Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers

Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse

Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer

Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education

Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices

Adding it all up in 2012: Are college net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?

Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter

The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis

A record one-in-five households now owe student loan debt

The role of two-year institutions in four-year success

College is affordable: A pilot study

2012 Household financial planning survey

Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well

Connecting the dots between learning and resources

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by academic level 2009-2010

Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college

Performance-based funding of higher education: A detailed look at best practices in six states

Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance

Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes

How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?

Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions

APSCU's five tenents of veteran education

MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries

Trends in college spending, 1999-2009

An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions

The condition of education 2012 (Website)

42nd Annual survey report on state sponsored student financial aid

Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures

Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges

Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California

Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition

How America pays for college 2012

Commencement day: Six-year effects of a college learning community program at Kingsborough Community College

Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school

Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs

Financial Aid Shopping Sheet

New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates

Career and technical education: Five ways that pay along the way to the B.A.

Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men

Cracking the credit hour

Strategies for improving outcomes for disconnected youth (Executive Summary)

Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study

Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation

Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education

Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways

The missing "one-offs": The hidden supply of high achieving, low-income students

Student debt and the class of 2011

STEM in postsecondary education: Entrance, attrition, and coursetaking among 2003-2004 beginning postsecondary students

Common measures for college access and success

Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates

Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Business resources for a college- and career-ready America

The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?

Forgotten middle-skill jobs: State by state snapshots

Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators

What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems

Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes

The Future Ready Project

After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality

The distribution of grants and scholarships by race

Unequal aid: Discriminatory treatment of gay and transgender applicants and families headed by same-sex couples in the higher education financial aid process

Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter

College Savings Foundation: 2011 Survey of parents

Affordable at last: A new student loan system

Three policies to reduce time to degree

Pat Tillman Foundation

Young adult outcomes of youth exiting dependent or delinquent care in Los Angeles county

Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report

Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys

What's it worth: The economic value of college majors

En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families

Critical choices: How colleges can help students and families make better decisions about private loans

Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)

41st annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2009-2010 Academic year

One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success

Gender inequalities in education

Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college

Latino college completion in 50 states

Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos

2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues

Remediation: Higher education's bridge to nowhere

Pathways through graduate school and into careers

Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states

2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance

Survey of state tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities: 2010-11

A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area

Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations

For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions

Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018

Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults

STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)

High school dual enrollment programs: Are we fast-tracking students too fast?

When working works: Employment & postsecondary success

Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees

Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states

Building institutional capacity for data-informed decision making

Beginning subbaccalaureate students' labor market experiences: Six years later in 2009

College Access: Indiana

Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years

2006-07 Washington state tuition and fee report

Great expectations: A guide to Alabama's high school graduation exam

Education watch California: Key education facts and figures

From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report

Raising the Bar: Policy Recommendations for high school reform

Accelerated learning for all

Building a strong community college system for the state of Indiana: A best practices study

Returning to our roots: Student access

Expanding opportunities: Postsecondary career and technical education and preparing tomorrow’s workforce

Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college

Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer

Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West

Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA

College Board scholarship search

Accelerated developmental education project

Committing to student engagement: Reflections on CCSSE's first five years: 2007 findings

The family: America's smallest school

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform

Beyond access: How the first semester matters for community college students' aspirations and persistence

Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges

Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning

Helping families finance college: Improved student loan disclosures and counseling

Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002

Opportunity in America: The role of education

Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine

SREB states lead the nation in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

Project on student debt: State by state data

Higher education accountability for student learning

Retooling career and technical education

Postsecondary education tuition and required fees in Indiana: 2007-09

State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices

Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school

State policies to bring adult learning into focus

National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years

Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)

Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education

A profile of the Talent Search program: 1999-2000

The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection

Early intervention programs: Opening the doors to higher education

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education

Parent primer on career exploration

An overview of post-secondary support programs for former foster youth

Overlooked gems: A national perspective on low-income promising learners

Minority males: Race/ethnicity, gender, and student outcomes

Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth

The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children

Get-recruited.com

2007 Survey of parents of college-bound freshman

Breaking through: Factsheet

Federal Aid First

Education Finance Council (EFC)'s financial literacy homepage

Education Finance Council

Economic mobility project

Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students

Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans

The Bologna club: What U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of higher education reconstruction

I-STEM Resource Network

Student persistence in college: More than counting caps and gowns

Toward a national workforce education and training policy

Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families

Education and training for TANF recipients: Opportunities and challenges under the final rule

The fiscal impacts of college attainment

A model of success: The model institution's for excellence program's successful leadership in STEM education (1995-2007)

Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report

Coming to our senses: Education and the American future

Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards

College credit in high school: Access and success for low-income and minority students

Paving the way: How financial aid awareness affects college access and success

Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10

Indiana by the numbers

National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education

Schools, skills, and synapses

Promise lost: College-qualified students who don't enroll in college

Community colleges under stress

Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer

NASFAA's cash for college

Student loans: Avoiding deceptive offers

Searchable English-Spanish glossary

Gateway to College

Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions

Workbook of state affordability rates 2004

Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in higher education: Does college remediation work

Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college

Lumina Foundation focus

Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students

Merit aid and college access

More on affordability: Response to Tom Mortenson

Dollars and sense II: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools

Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement

Gender gap grows

Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement

Debt burden: A comparison of 1992-93 and 1999-2000 bachelor's degree recipients a year after graduating

Student financial aid: Need determination could be enhanced through improvements in education's estimate of applicants state tax payments

Descriptive summary of 1995-96 beginning postsecondary students: Six years later

U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit

Undocumented immigrant students: A very brief overview of access to higher education in California

Trends in student aid 2005

Course corrections: Experts offer solutions to the college cost crisis

The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth

Addressing the shame of higher education: Programs that support college enrollment and retention of African-American males

Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs

How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth

Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students

Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges

Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success

Pathways to a four-year degree: The higher education story of one generation

The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel

2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for 2003-04 by type of institution

Financing higher education

No merit in these scholarships

The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students

Data sources for improving college access and success

Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.

The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality

College affordability in jeopardy: The rising price of higher education

Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states

Student success: Statewide P-16 programs

What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education

College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report

Debts and decisions: Student loans and their relationship to graduate school and career choice

Informing public policy: Financial aid and student persistence

Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities

On the road to college: Developing mobile and regional outreach services

Stepping stones to a degree: The impact of enrollment pathways and milestones on older community college student outcomes

College access: From the inside out

The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation

The toolbox revisited: Paths to degree completion from high school through college

Learning communities and student success in postsecondary education

Richard Stockton College Community of Scholars

Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth

Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort

The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college

How do financial aid policies affect colleges? The institutional impact of the Georgia HOPE scholarship

Unintended admission consequences of federal aid for homeschoolers

The impact of information and student aid on persistence: A review of research and discussion of experiments

Project on student debt.org

Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates

Adolescence: Are parents relevant to students' high school achievement and postsecondary attainment

Grappling with the access problem

Documenting the shift to merit

Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries

Admission possible

From high school to the future: A first look at Chicago public school graduates' college enrollment, college preparation, and graduation from four-year colleges

Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary

Increasing rates of school completion: Moving from policy and research to practice

High school counselors handbook 2004-05

NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good

NDSFA: Recommendations for improving federal aid delivery

Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students

Quality Counts 2007: State Highlights Reports

The money manual: A personal finance guide from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund

College on credit: How borrowers perceive their education debt

The debt explosion among college graduates

State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06

National Urban League Scholarships

Hispanic Scholarship Fund

Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school

Education and incarceration

College learning for the new global century

Ladders of learning: Fighting fade-out by advancing pK-3 alignment

Frequently asked questions about college costs

Costs, prices, and affordability

Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care

Just for the kids

Understanding recent changes in child poverty

The alternative pathways project: A framework for dropout reduction and recovery

Promoting a systematic focus on learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching

Helping students make good decisions and act on them: The real meaning of guidance and advisement

Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services

Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students

Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges

Transfer college quality and student performance

Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)

Four steps to finishing first in higher education: A guide for state policymakers

2010-2011 FAFSA on the web worksheet

Employers, low-income young adults, and post-secondary credentials: A practical typology for business, education, and community leaders

Report on student debt: Canadian college student survey and Canadian undergraduate survey consortium

Measuring the effectiveness of student assistance - Annual report 2006

Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel

The 2003 Ontario College Applicant Survey

Student aid and university persistence - Does debt matter?

Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers

Pressure points in student financial assistance: Exploring the “Making Ends Meet” database

Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps

Today's GI Bill: Connecting America's veterans to higher education

Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success

Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams

Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes

How youth plan to fund college

Guiding developmental math students to campus services: An impact evaluation of the Beacon program at South Texas College

A snapshot of African Americans in higher education

Financial incentives for institutions and individuals: Survey findings from the Midwest and the Nation

High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)

College readiness issue brief: Early commitment of financial aid: Individual development accounts (IDAs) for higher education

Graduation championship series: If a school's graduation rates mattered on the gridiron, college football's national rankings would look quite different

Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009

La Plaza's scholarship and financial aid guide for Latino's in Indiana - Fall 2009 (Spanish language version)

A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings

The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes

Sexual orientation and outcomes in college

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons learned

A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all

Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes

Characteristics of private student loan borrowers who do not use federal education loans

Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies

FinAid: Income-based repayment

The productivity argument for investing in young children

The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges

From high school to the future: Making hard work pay off: The road to college for students in CPS's academically advanced programs

Background and supporting evidence for Adult Education for Work

LE,NONET pilot project: Interim evaluation report

Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education

Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth

The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence

Access to Medical Education in Canada: Do Differing Tuition Regimes Affect Access and Career Choice?

Strengthening community colleges' influence on economic mobility

Persistence in post-secondary education in Canada: The latest research

Deciding on postsecondary education

Improving academic preparation for college: What we know and how state and federal policy can help

The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis

Achieving the Dream Data Notes: When do students stop out?

Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs

What does a college degree cost? Comparing approaches to measuring "cost per degree"

When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education

Federal student aid's oversight and monitoring of guaranty agencies, lenders, and servicers needs improvement

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics

Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success

Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams

Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10 (Spanish language version)

The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence

College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences

The future of middle-skill jobs

OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009

Science bound program (for Indianapolis public school students)

Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school

An overview of tax benefits for higher education expenses

Building tomorrow's workforce: Promoting the education and advancement of Hispanic immigrant workers in America

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet

2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)

Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2009 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2008-09, and 12-month enrollment 2008-09

Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males

Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference

Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees

Changes in postsecondary awards below the bachelor's degree: 1997-2007

Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs

Web tables - trends in graduate borrowing: selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08

Student poll: Many college-bound students report difficulty affording a college education

Improving education and employment for disadvantaged young men: Proven and promising strategies

Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED

First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in college

Characteristics of effective urban college preparation programs

Child poverty and intergenerational mobility

YourWordsToday.org

Putting students ahead of private banks: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibily Act (SAFRA) myths-facts

The foreclosure generation: The long-term impact of the foreclosure crisis on Latino children and families

Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college

Increasing baccalaureate attainment in Louisville: A proposed blueprint for community action

ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population

A portrait of low-income young adults in education

The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas

Status and trends in the education of minority groups

Dual enrollment: Postsecondary/secondary partnerships to prepare students

Using state data to promote continuous improvement of workforce programs: Guidance for states preparing applications to the U.S. DOL workforce data quality initiative

Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream

Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College

The college completion agenda: 2010 progress report

Building a learning agenda around disconnected youth

Who subsidizes whom? An analysis of educational costs and revenues

Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators

Giving credit where credit is due: Creating a competency-based qualifications framework for postsecondary education and training

K-12 education reform: Implications and opportunities for public colleges and universities

Learning communities for students in developmental math: Impact studies at Queensborough and Houston community colleges

Ready by 21 case study: Austin, TX

Why 529 college savings plans favor the fortunate

Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates

The need for institutional fiscal responsibility

Adult College Completion Network

Unconventional wisdom: A profile of the graduates of early college high school

What is the price of college? Total, net, and out of pocket prices in 2007-08

Closing the gap between high school and college

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for community colleges

Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures

Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project

Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges

The state of communities of color in the U.S. economy

Modeling the role of community colleges in increasing educational attainment and workforce preparedness

Certificates count: An analysis of sub-baccalaureate certificates