Browsing by Subject "Tuition"

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    Sport and Scholarship: A New Approach to College Affordability at the University of Minnesota
    (2013-05-31) Gale, Molly
    Rising tuition costs and college affordability issues are teetering on the precipice of a catastrophe. At the University of Minnesota, tuition rates continue to rise as public funding from the state continues to decline, despite inflation and growing need for student aid. Higher education must look to new ideas and methods for resolving the affordability crisis. Using sports-related principles, innovation theory, and social identity concepts, this paper offers a unique and proactive approach for combating this crisis at the University of Minnesota.
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    Trying to Fit In: Barriers to Degree Completion for Part-Time Graduate Students
    (2016-05) Mollen, Christine
    This research explores factors that affect the persistence of part-time graduate students and how the part-time students at one large research university experience moving through their programs. Data collected though a survey administered to full- and part-time graduate students helped illustrate areas of struggle for the part-time graduate student population. Although all graduate students experience barriers to degree completion, part-time graduate students at ‘traditional’ research institutions often follow a non-traditional path to degree completion and therefore face increased and unique barriers to completing their degrees, different from their undergraduate and full-time graduate counterparts.