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Author(s):American Council on Education
Title:Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Source:http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Template=...
Date:2006
Organization:American Council on Education
Short Description:Addresses key questions about undergraduates who work, using data from the 2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education.
Annotation:This issue brief addresses key questions about undergraduates who work, using data from the 2003–04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education. More than seventy percent of students work while enrolled in college. About one quarter of these students work full time.
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Foundations for success: Early implementation report
Trends in student aid 2009
Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth
The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
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
The tax and transfer fiscal impacts of dropping out of high school in Philidelphia city and suburbs
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students
Maintenance of effort: An evolving federal-state policy approach to ensuring college affordability
College Board Advocacy and Policy Center
Financial education in TRIO programs
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)
Lowering student loan default rates: What one consortium of historically black institutions did to succeed
False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Moving success from the shadows: Data systems that link education and workforce outcomes
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
Insuring college failure risk
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2010
Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
The effects of in-state tuition for non-citizens: A systematic review of the evidence
Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education
How college pricing undermines financial aid
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Adding it all up: An early look at net price calculators
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges
Priced out: How the wrong financial-aid policies hurt low-income students
The bottom line: Ensuring that students and parents understand the net price of college
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
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
Building integrated pathways to sustainable careers: An introduction to the Accelerated Opportunity Initiative
Farther, faster: Six promising programs show how career pathway bridges help basic skills students earn credentials that matter
Cohort default rates in context
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
Meeting the STEM workforce demand: Accelerating math learning among students interested in STEM
When working works: Employment & postsecondary success
Affordable at last: A new student loan system
Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty
Mobility makers
Lifting the fog on inequitable financial aid policies: A companion brief to priced out: How the wrong financial aid policies hurt low-income students
Testing the impact of Higher Achievement's year-round out-of-school time program on academic outcomes
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Bringing business analytics to the college campus: Using fiscal metrics to steer innovation in postsecondary educations
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
The distribution of grants and scholarships by race
You can go! Educator resources
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Career clusters: Forecasting demand for high school through college jobs 2008-2018
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Merit aid for undergraduates: Trends from 1995-96 to 2007-08
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Pell grants and the lifting of rural America's future
Unrealized promises: Unequal access, affordability, and excellence at community colleges in Southern California
What explains trends in labor supply among U.S. undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Prison vs. Princeton
Western Policy Exchanges
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance
Work-integrated learning and career-ready students: Examining the evidence
Simplifying student aid: What it would mean for states
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
Trends in college spending, 1999-2009
Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures
Close, but no degree: Removing barriers to degree-completion and economic advancement in New Jersey
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Examining economic mobility and the American Dream across demographics
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt
College is affordable: A pilot study
Grandparents investing in grandchildren: The Metlife study on how grandparents share their time, values, and money
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
"I came in unsure of everything": Community college shifts in students' confidence
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers