Charitable giving has been a critical resource for higher education dating back to the Academy of Socrates and Plato. It continued through the establishment of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, and in 2020, American higher education institutions received 49.6 billion of priv…
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First introduced in 1875, Blaine Amendments restrict private, parochial schools from utilizing publicly acquired funds. While the federally proposed Blaine Amendment died on the Senate floor, 37 states have adopted constitutional language that limits and/or bars religious school…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between intra-district per-pupil expenditures in five middle schools in within the same school division using an equity audit. Broadly, the distribution of resources was examined. Specifically, how intradistrict per-pupil…
University foundations in China have existed for less than 30 years. As of December 2017, less than 20% of Chinese universities (525 foundations) had registered a foundation. Considering the scarcity of reports on this topic, the increasing importance, and the difficulty in acce…
Total compensation is divided into current and deferred elements. Deferred portions are mainly composed of pensions and health benefits to which an employee is entitled upon retirement. Early pensions were designed to provide income security through a stream of payments, guarant…
For nearly three decades, public colleges and universities in the United States have suffered a sharp decline in the level of state funding that they receive (Chronicle, 2014). As a result, in order to remain not even competitive but simply financially stable, institutions of hi…
This dissertation examines inequality in school funding in North Carolina from 1964 to 1997. It highlights local, county and state decisions about the distribution of educational funds, and shows that public officials have created and maintained school funding mechanisms that ex…
Every year, applicants to genetic counseling graduate programs are burdened with the upfront cost of the application process. In addition to application fees, there are also “hidden costs” of applying, including graduate exam fees, prerequisite coursework, travel expenses for in…
Economists often evaluate public policies by measuring the effects of those policies on participants' wage income. I use two historical settings to argue that this focus on wage income biases estimates of the returns to education, the returns to local investment, and the measure…
University administrators, boards of trustees, and state and federal legislators spend significant time and effort focused on retention and graduation rates at American colleges and universities. The California State University (CSU) is no exception with its systemwide focus on …
This research studied how the variation in state school funding in Virginia since 2006, the ability to each locality to pay, and the concentration of economically disadvantaged students in each school district are related to the change in the average Standards of Learning (SOL) …
Even as a college credential becomes more critical than ever for economic security and social mobility, the risks associated with attending college have also grows. Many individuals leave higher education institutions without a credential but with student loan balances that they…
Why did teachers’ long campaign to fund schools with progressive income taxes on the rich fall short? Labor-liberals hoped to equalize opportunity for students by shifting school taxes from local communities like Detroit and Los Angeles to the states. Businessmen and conservativ…
The purpose of this case study is to understand higher education administrators’ perceptions of New York State’s tuition-free initiative, the Excelsior Scholarship. A comprehensive literature review offers insights into a select history of higher education policy, as well as the…
Education is a very important factor in unlocking the human potential and in turn, the development of economies. The revelation of Islam starts with the word Iqra (read). Since the conclusion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the introduction of the Sustainable Deve…
This study examines how Chief Student Affairs Officers (CSAO) make sense of their role engaging with fundraising at small, private, liberal arts institutions with endowments below the median endowment size of 140.2 million. Specifically examining how they make sense of engaging …