For more than 3 decades, scholars and practitioners have speculated on the extent to which
financial aid increases the odds of students completing their degrees. While the impact of …

A number of factors have contributed to the crisis in higher education, including the long‐
term transformation in funding. In this article, I argue that neoliberalism can explain many of …

Income inequality in educational attainment is a long-standing concern, and disparities in
college completion have grown over time. Need-based financial aid is commonly used to …

Roughly half of all undergraduate students in the United States fail to persist to degree
completion (American College Testing [ACT], 2010; Tinto, 1993; US Department of …

Economic and social success in American life increasingly requires a college degree.
Fourteen percent of children from poor families may reach the top 40% of the income …

Ten years of College Student Inventory (CSI) data from one Midwestern public land-grant
university were used to study the role of motivational factors in predicting academic success …

We examine the extent to which readily available data at a large public university can be
used to a priori identify at-risk students who may benefit from targeted retention efforts …

We examine the impacts of a private need-based college financial aid program distributing
grants at random among first-year Pell Grant recipients at thirteen public Wisconsin …

Meeting college students' basic needs is the goal of a new set of student success initiatives
that address students' urgent food, housing, or financial hardships in an effort to help them …

Back-and-forth enrollment at different institutions—student swirl—and concurrent enrollment
at two or more institutions—double-dipping—have become common experiences for …