Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis publications (MU)
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A critical sociocultural perspective on academic literacies in Latin America
(Universidad de Antioquia, 2019)In this editorial, the author reflects on the state of research on academic literacies in Latin American higher education. To this end, the author presents a description of the context of higher education in Latin America ... -
Women and Feminism in Higher Education Scholarship: An Analysis of Three Core Journals
(The Journal of Higher Education, 2006)Today, more women than ever before are active participants in higher education. For example, more than 50% of all undergraduate students are women and the numbers of women graduate, professional, and doctoral-degree ... -
Beyond Money: Relating Local School Taxation to Family and Community Risk
(Educational Considerations, 2010)State school finance formulas moved from tax-driven to student needs, while local community taxation requirements remain. However, no study has examined links between student needs risk factors affecting educational ... -
Aim High or Go Low? Pricing Strategies and Enrollment Effects when the Net Price Elasticity Varies with Need and Ability
(Journal of Higher Education, 2009)Detailed data on individual applicants to a large public university are used to demonstrate that net price responsiveness decreases with need and ability. Enrollment effects are simulated and show a movement towards a ... -
HOPE for the Pell? Institutional Effects in the Intersection of Merit-Based and Need-Based Aid
(Southern Economic Journal, 2006)Prior empirical evidence finds that general enrollment effects of merit-aid programs such as the Georgia Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship are large and significant, while the effects of need-based ... -
Money for Nothing? The Impact of Changes in the Pell Grant Program on Institutional Revenues and the Placement of Needy Students
(American Education Finance Association, 2007)Using new institutional-level data, we assess the impact of changing federal aid levels on institutional-level Pell revenues. Using various policy instruments associated with Pell generosity, we quantify the sensitivity ... -
The Effects of Institutional Merit-Based Aid On the Enrollment Decisions of Needy Students
(Enrollment Management Journal, 2008)Recently, both states and institutions have implemented merit-based financial aid packages to compete for the best students. This analysis explores the adoption of a merit-based aid program at the University of Oregon to ... -
Deriving Enrollment Management Scores from ACT Data
(IR Applications, 2008-11)This study is an investigation of the derivation of scores that predict whether or not prospective first-time freshmen will apply or will enroll and whether or not firsttime freshman enrollees will graduate using data from ...