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Jones, Todd R.; Kreisman, Daniel; Rubenstein, Ross; Searcy, Cynthia; Bhatt, Rachana – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
For years Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program provided full tuition scholarships to high-achieving students. State budgetary shortfalls reduced its generosity in 2011. Under the new rules, only students meeting more rigorous merit-based criteria would retain the original scholarship covering full tuition, now called the Zell Miller Scholarship,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Scholarships, Tuition, College Entrance Examinations
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Zhu, Zhengren – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
In the United States, transferring from a two-year program to a four-year program has become an increasingly important route toward a bachelor's degree. However, the pathway has an extremely high attrition rate. Utilizing two recent institutional reforms in the University System of Georgia, I show that allowing community colleges to offer…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Two Year Colleges, College Transfer Students, Bachelors Degrees
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Erwin, Christopher; Binder, Melissa – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
We use the natural experiment of a state lottery scholarship to measure the effect of generous financial aid on graduation rates at New Mexico's flagship public university. During the study period, the scholarship program paid full tuition for eight semesters for any state resident earning a 2.5 grade point average in their first semester at any…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, State Aid, Public Colleges, Graduation Rate
Liu, Vivian Yuen Ting – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Despite having been the largest source of financial aid to low-income college students in the United States, the traditional Pell Grant had one major limitation: If students enrolled in two semesters full-time, they would not have had any tuition support for the summer term of the same academic year. The year-round Pell (YRP) was implemented in…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Grants, Summer Schools, Federal Aid
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Clotfelter, Charles T.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Ladd, Helen F. – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
We explore the effects of a statewide policy change that increased the number of high school math courses required for admission to four-year public universities in North Carolina. Using data on cohorts of eighth-grade students from 1999 to 2006, we exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment encountered by…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Secondary School Mathematics, Public Colleges
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Rosinger, Kelly Ochs – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
Recent policy and research efforts have focused on simplifying the college-going process, improving transparency around college costs, and helping students make informed decisions. In 2012, the Obama administration released the "shopping sheet," a standardized financial aid offer that is intended to provide students with simplified…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Enrollment Influences, Paying for College, Student Loan Programs