*Please visit the published submission at - https://ir.library.louisville.edu/jsfa/vol50/iss2/4/This study extends and updates Collier et al. (2020) by using the recently-released Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) 2019 dataset to explore characteristics of enrollees in Income-Driven Repayment...

Little is yet known about the lives of those who are in Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) during repayment, as they approach forgiveness, or after the debt is discharged. With recent fixes to the PSLF program, an opportunity exists to better understand what participants’ lives “look...

A team of researchers at the University of Memphis and the University of Michigan released the results of a groundbreaking analysis revealing the massive personal benefits that student loan borrowers enjoy as they approach and, in particular, as they achieve debt cancellation through the Public...

*Please visit the accepted publication (open access) at https://journals.flvc.org/jpss/article/view/124641. This descriptive, single-university study (N=700) joined institutional, external, and survey data to examine first-year students’ food insecurity links to non-cognitive attributes and...

Between 2011 and 2018, 35 American universities and colleges divested, either partially or completely, their endowments from fossil-fuel holdings, marking a shift toward sustainability in university endowment investment. However, the decision by these universities to divest was often marred by...

With the conclusion of the 2016 election, Americans were questioning if race and gender identity differences are as prevalent as the election suggests. Attempting to answer that question as it pertains to higher education policy and drawing inspiration from Social Identity Theory, this research...

This quantitative study compares Kalamazoo Promise (KPromise) students to non-Promise, public high school graduating students at the 4-year institution at which the largest number of KPromise students have enrolled and graduated. The sample was generated from 2009-12 Fall cohorts. To add depth...

Several key elements go into Searle's construction of social reality, namely, collective intentionality, constitutive rules, and status functions. But by far the most important and arguably contentious of these is collective intentionality. Searle postulates his notion of collective...

Incentive pay programs for teachers are a popular tool for improving student achievement. Prior studies reveal large variation in the design of incentive programs and their effect on student learning, but do not link policy design characteristics to outcomes. We coded all available experimental...