Delayed enrollment and college plans: Is there a postponement penalty?
2013 study in The Journal of Higher Education on how taking time off before entering post-secondary education hurts some students and helps others.
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College student engagement and early career earnings
2013 study in the Review of Higher Education on relationship between engagement during college can help explain future earnings patterns.
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College mission and diversity statements: What they do and do not say
2012 study from the University of Memphis analyzing the language around diversity in the school mission statements of 80 post-secondary institutions.
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Memory tests reduce mind wandering and improve learning of online lectures
2013 study from Harvard University exploring techniques for improving online learning and education.
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Double majors: Influences, identities and impacts
2012 study from Vanderbilt University’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy on the demographics, motivations and outcomes of double majoring in college.
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University-based service learning: Relating mentor experiences to issues of poverty
2012 study from Vanderbilt University on the effects of a service-learning mentoring program and college students’ learning about social inequality.
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Civic values in college: Student-level and institutional-level effects
2013 study in Journal of College Student Development that shows how various factors help explain the development of civic values through college.
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Effects of work on leadership development among first-year college students
2012 study in the Journal of College Student Development on some positive effects of off-campus work for undergraduate students.
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How much protection does a college degree afford?
2013 report from the Pew Center on the States on how the ongoing recession has affected the economic prospects of recent university graduates.
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Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (Post-9/11 GI Bill): Primer and Issues
2011 Congressional Research Service report surveying new requirements and details of the GI Bill.
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