The topic of grit has been a highly sought after set of traits as it carries positive correlation with individual performance and in turn, has reflected to have a positive impact organizational outcomes. Recently, grit has emerged in higher education as a non-cognitive factor to drive student...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made a major impact on higher education and affected students’ livelihoods and attainment of education. To help students during these challenging times the Federal CARES Act was established to provide financial relief and support students in their time of need,...

The annual U.S. News and World Report Guide to America's Best Colleges is a much anticipated magazine among both high-ability prospective students and college and university administrators. In this paper we use a decade of Colgate University Admitted Student Questionnaire surveys to estimate the...

The quality of online education is of interest to universities around the world. Only high quality and cyclical evaluation are the conditions for obtaining students' satisfaction with this form of education. In the pandemic era, digital dissemination and open education have become a special...

We use a difference-in-differences analytic approach to estimate postsecondary consequences from Maine’s mandate that all public school juniors take the SAT®. We find that, overall, the policy increased 4-year college-going rates by 2- to 3-percentage points and that 4-year college-going...

The focus of the study was to determine if a difference existed with student academic level placement when utilizing traditional placement exams versus using high school performance metric multiple measure placement. Additionally, the study explored academic performance outcomes between similar...

This article identifies a number of international initiatives that have contributed to, reflect, or facilitate global higher education mobility. The article begins by presenting statistics about global higher education mobility. The sections that follow address a number of “hard law” and...

This study analyzes the level of self-esteem of freshmen indigenous students in the Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora, Navojoa Academic Unit for the period 2008-2009. The program school educational model Focus on Learning and Skills Student, supported by the Institutional...

Colleges and universities that adopt early decision (ED) as an admission practice are able to generate additional resources by attracting wealthier students who, upon admission, make binding commitments to attend and to forgo shopping for competing aid offers. An unanswered question is whether...

This paper discussed advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of admission tests as predictors of performance in undergraduate studies programs. The paper analyzes performance of economics and business administration students. This performance is linked to admission tests results....