Publications from the Center for Policy Analysis
Federal Student Loan Debt: 1993 to 2004
(2005)
Summarizes the total student loan debt
of undergraduate and graduate students completing their degrees. It
describes recent trends in cumulative student loan borrowing of college
graduates by institution type and degree earned.
Improving Lives Through
Higher Education: Campus Programs and Policies for Low-Income Adults
(2005)
Represents one of the first attempts to measure the institutional
programs, policies, and services available to adult college students,
particularly low-income adults.
The School-to-College
Transition: Challenges and Prospects (2004)
Summarizes the growing body of
research on the school-to-college transition, focusing on actions that
college and university leaders can take to improve low-income and
minority students’ access to higher education.
Missed
Opportunities: Students Who Do Not Apply for Financial Aid
(2004)
Examines the rates at which
undergraduates failed to complete a Free Application for Federal Student
Aid (FAFSA) as well as select characteristics of those students in terms
of dependency status, income, attendance status, and institution
type.
Overview of Higher
Education in the United States: Diversity, Access, and the Role of the
Marketplace (2004)
Provides snapshots of how most colleges and universities are governed
and financed, their students and faculty, the nature of the curriculum
and student life, and the effects of the marketplace on colleges and
universities.
Debt
Burden: Repaying Student Debt
(2004)
Analyzes data from
the National
Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) to take a closer look at debt
burden—the percentage of monthly income dedicated to student loan
payments after graduation—for those awarded baccalaureates in 1993
and 2000.
Frequently
Asked Questions About Distance Education
(2004)
In 2000, ACE published
its first issue brief on distance education, reporting data from a U.S.
Department of Education survey of colleges and universities on distance
education offerings in the 1997-98 academic year. This issue brief updates that information with data from a
similar Department of Education survey in the 2000-01 academic
year.
Choice
of Institution: Changing Student Attendance Patterns in the 1990s
(2004)
Describes where
individuals who participated in higher education enrolled and how those
patterns changed during the 1990s, using data from the Department of
Education’s National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES).
Low-Income Adults in Profile: Improving Lives Through Higher
Education (2004)
Describes the
background characteristics, academic profiles, and special challenges
faced by low-income adult students, and features a special essay that
defines the economic and social imperative for investing in the
education of low-income adults.
Money Matters: The Impact of Race/Ethnicity and Gender on How
Students Pay for College (2003)
An essential reference for
anyone concerned about how students pay for college, this new report
provides data and analysis for men, women, and each major racial/ethnic
group on student demographic characteristics, students' choice of
institution, grants and scholarships, student borrowing, student
employment, and the impact of students' choices on their academic
success.
Gender Equity in Higher
Education: Are Male Students at a Disadvantage?
(2003)
Gender Equity in Higher Education: Are Male Students at a
Disadvantage?, produced by ACE's Center for
Policy Analysis, examines data on the educational achievement of men and
women to determine the validity of previous reports that concluded that
women are more likely than their male peers to enroll in college and
attain a degree. It concludes that there is no general educational
crisis among men, but that gender equity in higher education varies
tremendously by age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic
status.
2003 Status Report on the Pell
Grant Program
(2003)
The American Council on
Education (ACE) has produced its latest status report on the Pell Grant
program. Examining historical trends, as well as concentrating on data
for a single year, this latest status report offers vital data on Pell
Grant recipients, comparing them with other undergraduate students in
terms of demographic characteristics and financing choices.
Student
Success: Understanding Graduation and Persistence Rates (2003)
Conflicting reports on
the progress of students through higher education often confuse the
issues of institutional retention, student persistence, and degree
attainment. Although institutional retention
measures and graduation rate are important campus planning and
management tools, they do not reflect the overall student
experience.
2003 Status Report on the
Federal Education Loan Programs
(2003)
Using data for 1999-2000, the
American Council on Education has produced this report, presenting the
most recent data on important trends in the largest federal education
loan programs. It also describes the characteristics of student
borrowers and outlines the role loans play in students’ college
financing schemes.
Diversifying Campus Revenue
Streams: Opportunities and Risks (2003)
This report considers why higher
education institutions are diversifying their revenue streams; examines
revenue-generating efforts in instruction, research, financial
management, franchising, and other domains; and synthesizes the research
on decision-making processes regarding new revenues. Diversifying
Campus Revenue Streams: Opportunities and Risks is the second paper
in the series, Informed
Practice: Syntheses of Higher Education Research for Campus
Leaders.
Distributed Education: Summary
of a Six-Part Series
(2003)
This paper offers an executive summary
of each of the monographs commissioned by the American Council on
Education (ACE) and EDUCAUSE for the series, Distributed Education:
Challenges, Choices, and a New Environment. This final report
provides readers a brief overview of each monograph, which cover a
variety of topics related to distributed education: the contemporary
context of distributed education, self-regulation, the importance of
institutional leadership, student learning, partnerships, and major
challenges to the growth of distributed distance education.
Barriers to Distance Education
(2003)
Although technology has broadened the
boundaries of higher education, significant barriers to distance
learning remain. This paper, the sixth and final monograph in the
ACE/EDUCAUSE series Distributed Education: Challenges, Choices, and a
New Environment, closely examines these obstacles, including those
both inside and outside the academy.
Partnerships in Distributed
Education
(2002)
Partnerships among higher education
institutions and between these institutions and for-profit firms can be
effective and desirable vehicles for implementing distributed education.
However, these relationships often raise issues related to curriculum
control, faculty autonomy, trademarks, technology expertise, courseware
ownership, and revenue sharing. This monograph, the fifth in the
ACE/EDUCAUSE series Distributed Education: Challenges, Choices, and a
New Environment, provides guidance to institutions seeking to form
successful partnerships in distributed education.
American College
President, 2002 Edition
(2002)
The American College President, 2002
Edition provides the most comprehensive data available on college
and university presidents. The only source of demographic data on
presidents from all sectors of American higher education, the report
presents information on presidents’ education, career paths, and
length of service, as well as personal characteristics such as age,
race/ethnicity, gender, marital status, and religious affiliation.
Information regarding the presidential search process and the growing
demands on American college presidents also appears, as do comparisons
with data from previous reports in the series.
New Professoriate:
Characteristics, Contributions, and Compensation
(2002)
The New Professoriate: Characteristics, Contributions, and
Compensation analyzes the most complete data
available on faculty, discussing the characteristics of nontraditional
faculty and comparing them to their full-time
colleagues.
Student Learning as Academic
Currency (2002)
This monograph, fourth in
the ACE/EDUCAUSE series Distributed Education: Challenges, Choices, and a New
Environment, explores how distributed
education challenges the credit hour as the standard measure of student
progress. It describes a system based on alternate measurements of
student learning that accommodates the asynchronous nature of
distributed education. The paper also examines the institutional, state,
and federal policy implications of an alternative measurement
system.
Distributed Learning: New
Challenges and Opportunities for Institutional Leadership
(2002)
This monograph, third in
the ACE/EDUCAUSE series, Distributed Education: Challenges, Choices, and a New
Environment, focuses on the challenges faced
by college and university leaders as their institutions begin to engage
in distributed learning and the potentially transforming changes that
lie along the way.
Touching the Future: Final
Report
(2002)
In 1999, the American
Council on Education Presidents’ Task Force on Teacher Education
released To Touch the
Future: Transforming the Way Teachers Are Taught. The report laid the groundwork for college and university
leaders to engage actively and aggressively in reforming the way their
institutions educate future teachers. Since that time, ACE has worked to
raise awareness of the shortcomings in teacher education and devise ways
to overcome these deficiencies.
Crucial Choices: How
Students’ Financial Decisions Affect Their Academic Success
(2002)
This report examines the
effects of students’ financial choices on their prospect of
succeeding in college. Using the most recent statistical data,
Crucial Choices
describes students who are entering college, their
academic background, how they choose to pay for their education, and the
potential effects of those choices on the likelihood that they will
graduate.
Access & Persistence:
Findings from 10 Years of Longitudinal Research on Students
(2002)
Access & Persistence: Findings from 10 Years of
Longitudinal Research on Students is a clear,
cogent summary of what researchers have learned about access,
persistence, and outcomes from 10 years of federally funded national
longitudinal studies of college students.
Maintaining the Delicate
Balance: Distance Learning, Higher Education Accreditation, and the
Politics of Self-Regulation (2002)
This paper describes the impact
of distance learning on the balance among accreditation (to assure
quality in higher education), institutional self-regulation, and the
availability of federal money to colleges and universities. The paper
confronts the challenges of protecting students and the public from
poor-quality higher education, and attending to quality in an
increasingly internationalized higher education marketplace.
Distributed Education and Its
Challenges: An Overview
(2001)
Distributed Education and Its Challenges: An
Overview is the first report in the
ACE/EDUCAUSE series Distributed Education: Challenges, Choices, and a New
Environment. This report identifies
significant issues associated with distributed education and suggests a
series of questions to help institutional leaders establish and validate
their options.
Measuring Quality: Choosing
Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality (2001)
The purpose of this guide is to
articulate a set of questions and issues that campus leaders can review
when deciding whether to participate in a given survey or use a specific
assessment instrument. The guide also describes in detail 30 of the
major national surveys and assessments. Although the guide does not rate
or recommend these services, it suggests the criteria campus leaders
should use to determine the use and usefulness of any survey instrument
or service, based on specific campus needs, capabilities, and
goals.
To Touch the Future: Transforming the Way Teachers are Taught
(1999)
This report addresses what
college and university presidents can do, in their roles as academic and
institutional leaders, to transform the quality of teachers serving the
nation’s classrooms, and why presidential leadership is so crucial
to the success of this venture.
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