The purpose of this study was to investigate the amount of information that potential adult male students had on financial aid and other aspects of college programs and to develop insights concerning the effects of an information gap (if any) on enrollment decisions and the degree to which colleges in a selected area are marketing information. To obtain the data necessary to answer the research questions posed in this study, a sample of 143 respondents between the ages of 25 and 60 was selected from the city of Richmond, Virginia. The basic process utilized was area sampling techniques. In addition, stratified random sampling techniques were used to select the specific locations where the sample was to be drawn and the Hill Directory was used to gain access to that population. The results of discriminant analysis and stepwise regression revealed the following nine variables were significant predictors of whether or not adult males would want to go to college. 1. Age--More younger males (25 to 35) expressed an interest in attending college than older males (ages 40 to 60). 2. Level of Education--More males with previous college experience wanted to go to college than males with no college experience. 3. Marital Status--More single males wanted to go to college than married males. 4. Cost--Males interested in attending college viewed cost of education as the major obstacle more often than males not interested in attending college. 5. Time--More males not interested in attending college mentioned time as a problem than males interested in attending college. 6. Annual Income--More males with incomes above $25,000 expressed no interest in attending college than males with incomes in the $6,000-12,000 range. 7. Home Responsibility--More males not interested in attending college viewed home responsibility as an obstacle than males interested in attending college. 8. Job Responsibility--More males not interested in attending college mentioned job responsibility as a deterrent to enrollment than males interested in attending college. 9. Knowledge of Academic Requirements--Males not interested in attending college had more information on academic requirements than males interested in attending college. It was concluded that the lack of information was a problem related to the adult males' participation in higher education. Even many of those who wanted to go to college had not been motivated to the point where they had (1) enrolled or (2) even acquired information. This study did not attempt to determine the effect of promotion (better information) on enrollment behavior. It would be useful to conduct such a study. It is recommended that further research be conducted to test the effects of various marketing and promotional techniques. Practice in the marketing of higher education would also profit from studies on "what were the factors that cause adults to make enrollment decisions" and "appropriate strategies for preparing an institution to pursue a new market." / Ed. D.

The primary purpose of this study was to construct and test a model of the factors affecting high school students' first time entry into different types of postsecondary institutions. To test the model, a sample (N = 5395) of high school students was drawn from the sophomore cohort of High School and Beyond data. These students were enrolled in different types of postsecondary institutions: four year colleges and universities, two year junior colleges, community colleges, and vocational technical colleges. The path model is a set of structural equations that considers the college enrollment decision of the students to be a function of four exogenous variables and six endogenous variables. The exogenous variables were: socioeconomic status of the student's family, student's academic ability, academic performance, and educational aspiration. The endogenous variables in the model were: high school program, encouragement for college attendance, cost of the postsecondary institution, size of the postsecondary institution, and student aid both in the form of grant and loan. These variables were arranged in a fully-identified block recursive model. Because of possible interactions caused by different parameters between blacks and whites, the model was analyzed separately for black students and white students. The model also was estimated separately for male and female students. The computer program, GEMINI, was used to estimate the model. Results indicated that tuition cost, academic ability, and educational aspiration were the most important influences on students' enrollment choice between four year colleges and other postsecondary institutions. Financial aid variables, both grants and loans, exerted significant positive effect on the college enrollment decision as well. The effects of these variables were found to be similar for blacks and whites, and for males and females. Recommendations for future research include further work on college going behavior with different populations. The studies of non-traditional patterns of attendance and the impact of current financial aid policy on these patterns would contribute to better understanding of college attendance behavior. / Ph. D.

The purpose of the study was threefold: (a) to determine the amount of student financial aid received by undergraduate students in targeted groups to see who benefits, (b) to identify a limited number of variables that account for a significant portion of differences in aid distribution, and (c) to examine alternative models that might clarify suspicions of substantive bias in aid distribution. The research questions addressed the variability among aid recipients in amount of student financial aid, the variables most closely related to aid differences, and the extent to which these variables are included in financial aid formulas. This study employed data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, which collected enrollment and financial aid information for 59,886 postsecondary education students in Fall, 1986. In this study, several samples of aided undergraduate students from public and private, non-profit, institutions were used. Methods included: 1. A large number of variables, selected because of their close association with aid distribution, were reduced through factor analysis to support descriptive analysis. 2. The resulting factors and variables were used to create competing models to predict variability in aid distribution. 3. Regression models were tested using SAS regression procedures. 4. Significant variables were used to aggregate the amounts of aid received by each class of recipient. The major finding was that the amount of aid appeared to be primarily a function of institutional price/control. Income was related to the amount of aid, as were type of institution and attendance pattern, but these variables played a lesser role in accounting for aid differences. Student demographic variables, such as race and sex, accounted for little of the differences in the regression models. Yet differences were apparent when descriptive profiles were drawn. It was shown in the profiles that minorities and males generally received higher amounts of aid. Students at four-year institutions and at private institutions appeared to have a smaller percentage of their costs met by aid. Although aid was being distributed to need-based recipients largely in the manner intended by the Higher Education Act, some inequities in distribution were observed. / Ed. D.

Organisational Leadership / The purpose of this study is to determine which factors influence the formation of intention to adopt the NSFAS online financial application system at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), and to identify barriers to adoption experienced by the NSFAS applicants at TUT. To achieve these objectives, the study utilised the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Ram & Sheth (1989) concept of barriers to model TUT NSFAS adoption patterns. To test this conceptual framework, a descriptive quantitative research survey approach was conducted. Data was collected through self-completion structured questionnaires from a sample of 644 TUT students in September 2015. SPSS Version 23 and STATA 12 were utilised to conduct descriptive and multivariate analyses including correlations and structural equation modelling respectively.

The Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) is intended to help student parents to persist with their course of study and graduate as soon as possible. This study was done to gain further insight into the service needs of the parents who participate in the program.

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the existing and ideal perceived roles of college financial aid directors in Texas, the preparation of financial aid directors, the scope of their work, status, degree of job satisfaction, and attitudes toward selected financial aid concepts. A self-report questionnaire, which had been validated by a selected panel of financial aid directors, and for which reliability had been established by the test re-test method, provided the necessary data for the research report. Replies were received from more than seventy-five per cent of the financial aid directors in the colleges of Texas. Chapter I, Introduction, includes the subject of the study, purposes, research questions, background and significance, definition of terms, basic assumptions, instruments, and procedures for analysis of data. Chapter II is the review of related research. Chapter III gives procedures for collection and treatment of data. Chapter IV contains the report of the responses to the questionnaire, and Chapter V contains a summary of the findings, the conclusions reached, recommendations, and implications for further study.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitetet i Lund, 1984. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Errata slip inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-180).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-91).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University, Dept. of Secondary Education. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 131-133.

M. Tech. Business Administration / According to Strydom et al.'s (2010) South African Survey of Student Engagement (SASSE) project, the report describes the "revolving door syndrome" in which the increase in access to Higher Education is not matched by a concomitant increase in student success, an occurrence which continues to characterise the Higher Education system in South Africa. The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at Tshwane University of Technology believes that the low success rate of postgraduate students may be attributed to the lack of provisioning of adequate resources needed by such students. This study seeks to identify the most important organizational support factors which should be focused on when developing future strategies for the improvement of success rates of these students.