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Two-Year College Financial Aid Default Rates: Relative Density Analysis
In August, 2012, I summarized my study of federal financial aid default rates for four-year institutions. The following is a summary of the distribution of federal financial aid default rates for public, private nonprofit (NP) and private for-profit (FP) two-year institutions. The data for … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Aid Default Rates, Higher Education, Socio-economic Status
Tagged access, associate degree, default rates, finacial aid, private non-profit colleges, public colleges, relative cumulative probability distribution function (CDF), relative density methods, relative distribution methods, socio-economic status, student debt, student financial aid, tow-year colleges
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Proprietary Students Fall Way Behind in Repaying Student Loans
A couple days ago I shared U.S. Department of Education data indicating 193 vocational programs fail the ‘gainful employment’ test, all of them in the for-profit sector of higher education. The Department of Education’s “Gainful Employment” database provides another rich … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Aid Default Rates, Higher Education
Tagged default rates, finacial aid bubble, higher education, logistic regression, private non-profit colleges, public colleges, relative cumulative probability distribution function (CDF), relative density methods, relative distribution methods, student debt, student financial aid
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Distributional Analysis of Pell Grants among the Sectors of Higher Education and Why It’s Important
Pell grants are extremely important assets for providing students opportunities to enter and complete higher education. How are these assets distributed among the three sectors of higher education — public, private not-for-proft and private for-profit institutions? Let’s begin be examining … Continue reading
Baccalaureate Retention Rates
In two previous posts (1, 2) we utilized the Chronicle of High Education’s database to analyze factors related to baccalaureate graduation rates. In this post we will use the same database to briefly assess factors associated with freshman retention rates … Continue reading
Graduation Rates in Private For-Profit Sector Lag Behind Public and Private Not-For-Profit Sectors
In the previous post we examined baccalaureate graduation rates, controlling for a number of covariates. Utilizing the same Chronicle of Higher Education database we will focus on the distribution of baccalaureate graduation rates by sector of control — public, private … Continue reading
Distribution of District Graduation Rates Based on Comparison Groups
In an earlier post, Class Size Matters for Graduation Outcomes, I pointed to my own research demonstrating school districts with lower pupil-teacher ratios favorably differentiate themselves with higher graduation rates from districts with higher pupil-teacher ratios and lower graduation rates. … Continue reading
Federal Financial Aid Default Rates
The New York Post reports, “Total student debt is at an all-time high — and may top $1 trillion this year. Meanwhile, default rates are rising alarmingly.” That’s right, $1 trillion. The primary purpose of this study focuses on differential … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Aid Default Rates, Uncategorized
Tagged access, baccalaureate education, default rates, finacial aid bubble, private non-profit colleges, public colleges, relative cumulative probability distribution function (CDF), relative density methods, relative distribution methods, student debt, student financial aid
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Graduation Rate Inequalities in Higher Education
Graduation outcomes have come to the forefront in American higher education (National Governors Association, 2010; Lumina Foundation, 2009; U. S. Department of Education, 2006, The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2010). Completion rates in higher education have … Continue reading