We develop a model of affirmative action as a large contest wherein students with heterogeneous underlying abilities compete for seats at vertically differentiated colleges that use color-sighted affirmative action policies to evaluate applicants. Students make costly human capital investments before applying, and these investments are both intrinsically productive and serve as signals of abili...

American Council on Education [2] American Council on Education Department Chair Services [3] American Council on Education Office of Women in Higher Education [4] Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) [5] Association of American Universities (AAU) [6] Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) [7] Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and...

Although student support services are critically important for promoting better academic outcomes for students, many community colleges struggle to integrate these services with academic instruction. This summary describes a number of strategies developed to bridge the gap between student support services, particularly counseling and advising functions, and academic instruction in community col...

Previous studies argued that high school resources play a modest role in students’ postsecondary destinations, but they ignored schools’ programmatic resources, which provide opportunities for marks of distinction, such as Advanced Placement courses, and they focused on older cohorts of high school students who entered colleges before competition over admission to selective colleges intensified...

We study decentralized college admissions with uncertain student preferences. Colleges strategically admit students likely to be overlooked by competitors. Highly ranked students may receive fewer admissions or have a higher chance of receiving no admissions than those ranked below. When students’ attributes are multidimensional, colleges avoid head-on competition by placing excessive weight on...

ميلعتلا يف لامعلأا تافلم مادختسا روطت ،ةريخلأا دوقعلا للاخ ةساردلا يتلحرم يف اهمادختسا تمو راشتنلاا ةعساو حبصتل يبطلا تافلم نإ .ملاعلا ءاحنأ عيمج يف ايلعلا تاساردلاو ةيعمالجا قيثوتلا لئاسو نم ةليسوكو ملعتلا ةيلمع نم ءزج اهفصوب لامعلأا يتلاو رابكلل ملعتلا تايرظن للاخ نم ةميق ةادأك معدت ،مييقتلاو ملعتلا يف طارخنلالو اًيتاذ ملعتلا هيجوتل ينملعتلما ةجاح ىلع دكؤت ةيميلعت ةربخ رفوي لامعلأا تافللم حيحص...

The lack of resource and the marginalization place agricultural science in general curricula pre-university education Ghana are identified as key constraints study subject. purpose this was to ascertain students’ perceived effectiveness teaching learning colleges Hohoe Municipality. A simple random sampling used select 120 level 100 200 students for study. data collected analyzed outcomes...

OBJECTIVE Motor vehicle crashes involving alcohol are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality among college students in the United States. This study evaluates the effect on drinking and driving outcomes of the "A Matter of Degree" program, a campus-community coalition initiative to reduce college binge drinking. METHODS We used a quasi-experimental longitudinal study design that compa...