|
|
25th Annual SFARN Conference
The Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, MD
June 12-14, 2008
The following lists all presentations made during the 25th Annual SFARN conference. If presenters made their materials available via Powerpoint or PDF files, they are provided here. To access the presentation, please click on the title. If you have questions regarding individual presentations, especially if materials are not included here, please contact the presenters. If you have other questions regarding the conference or experience technical difficulties, please contact Chandra Taylor Smith.
THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2008
- Merit Based Financial Aid: Antecedents, Present Landscape & Future Direction
Don Heller, Penn State University; Erik Ness, University of Pittsburgh; Brian Noland, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, & David Mundel, Mundel Associates
- Panel on Academic Preparation & Achievement
1) Findings from a National Survey of College-Qualified Students, Derek Price, DVP-Praxis LTD;
2) Does Financial Aid Impact Collegiate Success: The Effects of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on Academic Performance and Behaviors, Angela Boatman, Harvard University Graduate School of Education;
3) Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Aid (MESA) Project, Miriam Kramer, EPI
- Aversion to Borrowing
Alisa Cunningham, Institute for Higher Education Policy & Melissa Clinedinst, National Association of College Admission Counseling
- Panel on Financial Aid for Disadvantaged Populations
1) Aboriginal Youth & Student Financial Assistance, Joseph Berger & Noel Baldwin, Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation;
2) The “In-between” Time: Financial Aid Challenges for Low-Income College Bound Latino Students, Kristan Venegas, University of Southern California
- Panel on Merit Aid
1) Institutional Merit Grants: What Can Students Learn from College Websites,
Wil Del Pilar & Don Heller,Penn State University;
2) The Marketing of Merit Aid: Flagship Response to State Merit Aid Programs, Erik Ness & Adam Lips, University of Pittsburgh
FRIDAY JUNE 13, 2008
- Academic Competitiveness & SMART Grants: The First Year
Susan Choy and Lutz Berkner, MPR Associates, Inc, & John Lee and Amelia Topper, JBL Associates, Inc
- Panel on Graduate-Level Education
1) Undergraduate Borrowing & Enrollment Beyond the BA, Matthew Yurdin, University of California;
2) Pumping the STEM Laborforce: An Examination of Doctoral Students in the STEM fields, Kenneth Redd, Council of Graduate Schools, & Gigi Jones, National Association of Independent Colleges & Universities
- Panel on Parents
1) From Aspirations to Action: The Role of Middle School Parents in Making the Dream of College a Reality,
Wendy Erisman, Institute for Higher Education Policy;
2) Paying for Persistence: Final Results of an Incentive Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents Attending Community College, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, MDRC;
3) Promoting College Enrollment for Parents: Unintended Benefits of State Grant Programs, Laura Perna & Rachel Fester, University of Pennsylvania
- Information Sharing Could Help Institutions Identify & Address Challenges Some Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Face
Carol Bray, Jonathan McMurray, & Susan Pachikara, GAO
- Financial Aid at the California Community Colleges in 2003-04
Lutz Berkner, MPR Associates, Inc
- Panel on College Access
1) Potholes on the Road to College:
Financial and Non-Financial Barriers to College Access in Chicago Public Schools, Jenny Nagaoka & Christopher Mazzeo, Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago;
2) Factors Influencing Higher Education Access & Completion for Appalachian Ohio Students, 1992 and 2008, Brenda Haas, Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education, & Marsha Lewis, Ohio University
- Panel on Alternative Approaches
1) Tackling Drop-out Rates in Community Colleges, Yves Pelletier, Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation;
2) Lessons from the Dreamkeepers & Angel Fund Emergency Financial Aid Programs, Christian Geckler, MDRC
SATURDAY JUNE 14, 2008
- Post-Secondary Education Student Debt: Reality and Perception in the Canadian Career College Sector
Leesha Lin, Canada Student Loan Program
- The Impact of Increases in Pell Grant Awards on College-going Among Lower Income Youth: Evidence from a 'Natural Experiment'
David Mundel, Mundel Associates
- Increasing HOPE? Early Effects of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship
Erin O’Hara, Tennessee Higher Education Commission
- Panel on Low-Income, First-Generation Students
1) Postsecondary Access & Persistence among Vermont GEAR UP & Talent Search Participants, Laura Massell, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation;
2) Moving Beyond Access: College Success for Low-Income, First-Generation Students, Jennifer Engle & Colleen O’Brien, The Pell Institute
|
|
Questions & Comments
25th Annual Info
• • • • •
Presentations
Speaker Biographies
|
|
