TG Publications

Enrollment Management and Degree Completion

Journals

Enrollment Management Journal — Enrollment Management Journal: Student Access, Finance, and Success in Higher Education is published quarterly by TG in association with the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.

Research Reports

Accelerating Latino Student Success at Texas Border Institutions: Possibilities and Challenges — 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.
Community College Faculty at Work — Provides useful insight into the strategies and techniques that community college faculty incorporate to facilitate the academic success of Hispanic students. The primary focus of this paper is on faculty-student engagement in the classroom.
Economic Returns from Higher Education in Texas — A study on the impact of a postsecondary education on the Texas economy.
Effective Practices in Student Success — A comprehensive summary of the EPSS database for higher education professionals who are interested in learning proven practices in higher education. The summary outlines programs and strategies that have shown evidence of a positive impact on specific groups of college students.
Engaging Faculty and Staff: An Imperative for Fostering Retention, Advising, and Smart Borrowing — Provides useful insights and strategies for institutions to use to increase student retention, persistence and postsecondary success — and to reduce the burdens of student loan defaults.
How to Graduate High-Risk Students: Lessons from Successful For-Profit Colleges and Schools in Texas — This research report outlines the findings of a study on the career school sector commissioned by TG and the Council for the Management of Educational Finance. It examines the factors — organizational practices and structures — that enable four Texas for-profit schools to succeed in retaining and graduating high-risk students.
P-16 Strategic Planning: A Texas Pilot — What Was Planned and What Actually Happened — Written for new and emerging P-16 councils, this report documents the process of how two organizations achieved P-16 council recognition. It includes tools to guide councils in organizing and developing living strategic plans to facilitate recognition, success, and increased student access to and completion of a postsecondary education.
Paths to the Baccalaureate: A Study of Transfer and Native Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution — This paper examines the paths followed by Hispanic baccalaureate completers at a nonselective, public university. The purpose of the study is to describe the paths in more detail and to provide insight into the experiences of those who have realized this educational goal.
Retention and Persistence in Postsecondary Education — A summary of relevant information focusing on one basic issue - keeping students in school. The report discusses a number of facts, studies, theories, and recommendations about retention in postsecondary education.
Straight From the Source: What Works for First-Generation College Students — Shares specific student practices that effectively eased the transition from college to high school, discusses less effective actions, and considers practices that might help more first-generation students begin college.
The Way the Future Was — This paper provides the results a forum on the future of higher education hosted by TG and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The paper identifies institutional practices that lead to student success in postsecondary education and suggests tasks practitioners can undertake to help bring this about.
With Great Challenges Come Great Opportunities: Promising Practices of Texas Community Colleges — This report examines how high-performing Texas community colleges meet the challenge of serving a diverse student population with widely varied goals, from academic degrees to technical certifications, remedial education, recreational self-fulfillment courses, and more. The report highlights effective strategies at three schools in Texas chosen for their higher than average persistence, workforce placement, and Pell recipient rates, and for their lower than average cohort default rates.

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