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Publications supported by TG Philanthropy

• Accelerating Latino Student Success at Texas Border Institutions: Possibilities and Challenges
  This report from Excelencia in Education examines enrollment and graduation trends at eight Texas institutions, highlights promising programs and strategies for serving Latino students, and offers policy recommendations for improving success rates for Latino students in Texas.
• College Going Culture in Urban High Schools
  This project at the University of North Texas explores perceptions of the culture to support college going in six urban high schools, in three school districts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, that primarily serve students from groups underrepresented in higher education and whose parents did not graduate from college. Using six case studies as data, this research studies the successes and challenges college students face when completing case studies of urban high schools, whether there are differences in the various cultures for college going, and whether patterns are evident in the recommendations made to the high schools by the research teams.
• Community College Faculty at Work: Facilitating the Success of First-Generation Hispanic Students
  The University of Nebraska at Lincoln conducted this research to examine the practices and perceptions of 41 faculty members at three, two-year institutions to demonstrate effective practices in facilitating the academic success of first-generation Hispanic students.
• The Completion Challenge: Helping Students in Higher Education
  This document captures the information, discussion, and outcomes from a forum hosted by the Austin College Access Network and TG. The event examined the efforts of several regional nonprofits and higher education institutions and proposed ways to strengthen collaboration to improve postsecondary completion for low-income students.
• Digital Disclosures: What parents, teens and educators told us about new ways to connect with hard to reach families in the digital age
  This report from EduGuide includes in-depth interviews, polls and data analyses as some of the tools to delve into the insights of first-generation parents, students and educators for a "3-D view" of the possibilities and challenges of using technology to provide college access assistance.
• Education and Work after High School: A First Look at the Class of 2006
• Outcomes One Year Later: An Update on the Class of 2006
• Education and Work After High School: A First Look at the Class of 2007
  These publications incorporate research conducted by the University of Texas at Austin's Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources as part of "The Student Futures Project." The project is a partnership of the Ray Marshall Center, Skillpoint Alliance, and a growing number of Central Texas independent school districts (ISDs). The project documents and analyzes the progress of Central Texas high school students as they move through college and into their careers. These resulting publications combine student surveys and linked administrative records to improve feedback and policy and program alignment for Central Texas ISDs, to prepare students for the demands of adulthood and for success in the workplace.
• Gaming the System: Fostering college knowledge through play
  The Collegeology Games project capitalizes on cutting edge technology and a pioneering design process to develop students' college knowledge, confidence, and drive to apply to, enroll in, and persist in college. This report overviews the rationale behind developing games to address such a serious problem, how the game intervention developed, the different components of the intervention, preliminary research findings supported by a grant from TG, and next steps in the project's trajectory.
• Paths to the Baccalaureate: A Study of Transfer and Native Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution
  The University of Nebraska at Lincoln conducted this research to examine the paths followed by Hispanic baccalaureate holders at a nonselective, public university. The study describes the paths in detail and provides insight to the experiences of those who have realized this educational goal.
• The Price of Persistence: Barriers to Postsecondary success for Low-Income and First-Generation Students
  This report from College Forward examines factors contributing to college persistence and barriers impeding it among low-income students served by College Forward. In-depth interviews and focus groups provided the majority of data for this rich look at students' needs.
• Reality Check: Hispanic-Serving Institutions on the Texas Border Strategizing Financial Aid examines financial aid strategies at eight Texas Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) serving low-income communities. Analysis shows these institutions have increased access and implemented strategies to improve student persistence and degree completion despite current economic challenges. These institutions rank among the top institutions in the state and nationally, in enrolling and graduating Latino students. The findings of this brief are intended to inform the programs and services at institutions with growing Hispanic enrollment, as well as state and federal policymakers addressing the broader growth of Hispanic students throughout higher education.
• Sealing the Gaps — Supporting Low-Income, First-Generation Students at Four-Year Institutions in Texas Post-Transfer
  This study tracked completion rates of community college transfer students — most of whom are low-income, nontraditional-aged and attending part-time — in comparison with equivalent "native" students who initially enrolled at four-year institutions, utilizing data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
• Straight From the Source: What Works for First-Generation College Students
  Produced by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, this report presents findings from focus groups of first-generation students in Texas. This publication shares students' specific practices that effectively eased the transition from college to high school, discusses less effective actions, and considers practices that might get more first-generation students into college.
• Student Aversion to Borrowing: Who Borrows and Who Doesn’t
  The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Excelencia in Education highlight the borrowing patterns of college students and provide suggestions about why certain students may not use student loans, even when borrowing seems a logical choice. This study uses demographic and enrollment characteristics of undergraduate students, as well as data from interviews with students and financial aid administrators, to gain understanding of students' use of loans as a means to finance higher education.
• Studies on Barriers to Higher Education in Texas
  Texas A&M University conducted original phone surveys to investigate, identify, measure, and predict the barriers to higher education for adult residents in Texas. Statewide interviews of Texas residents 25 years of age and older were used to collect the data with an over-sampling of racial and ethnic minority adults.

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