Papers by Edward St. John
A study was done of recent district-initiated reform movements by analyzing different belief syst... more A study was done of recent district-initiated reform movements by analyzing different belief systems regarding schools and reform and by applying the analysis to a study of a district widely known for its leading role in implementing reforms. Belief System I
The Review of Higher Education, 2004
Journal of Student Financial Aid
Journal of Student Financial Aid
, was involved in a series of research and service projects designed to better the condition of s... more , was involved in a series of research and service projects designed to better the condition of single-male farmworkers in Stockton and Sacramento. These communities, known locally as skid row, were destroyed as a result of urban renewal. The projects were separated into 2 phases: 1) the development of service and research methods in the Sacramento Skid Row community, and 2) the application of these methods to the Stockton Skid Row community. In Phase I, university efforts focused on employment and training opportunities, community development, service projects, and in-culture research. Project developments during Phase II were: in-culture research, community development, services needed for survival, and casual labor market assessment. The in-culture research method operates on the philosophy that the persons who participate in a culture or subculture are a valuable information source on their needs and lifestyles. A research team from within the group collected data by questionnaire composed of questions from the group and interviews. This monograph emphasizes the process in which the single-men projects were developed, briefly describing the projects and discussing research results and implications of the process for future researchers. Findings indicate that members of the single-male subculture can be organized into self-help groups and that the in-culture research approach works. (NQ)
The Economic Journal, 2004
... Incentive-Based Budgeting Systems in Public Universities. Clive.R. Belfield. Article first pu... more ... Incentive-Based Budgeting Systems in Public Universities. Clive.R. Belfield. Article first published online: 5 FEB 2004. ... Additional Information. How to Cite. Belfield, C. (2004), Incentive-BasedBudgeting Systems in Public Universities.The Economic Journal, 114: F158F159. ...
ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report
This analysis critically examines the cost controversy in higher education with an eye to resolvi... more This analysis critically examines the cost controversy in higher education with an eye to resolving the crisis which is currently serving to exacerbate public willingness to fund higher education. An introduction touches on the role and influence of political ideologies and offers a framework to be used throughout the analysis for critically examining ideological claims regarding the cost controversy. A section on the role of federal financing strategies and their contribution to the cost controversy looks at the federal role in pricing, promoting productivity, and the concept of student aid as investment. A section on state financial strategies also looks at pricing, improving productivity and investment, and assesses various ideological claims about state issues. A section on institutional financing strategies reviews institutional perspectives, understanding price changes and productivity, the investment view, and ideological claims. A section on understanding financial strategy presents a reconstruction of the models typically used to assess financial strategies in higher education by first critically examining four common theories and then proposing a reconstructed model for assessing financial strategy. A final section uses the reconstructed framework to assess a range of approaches that federal and slate governments and institutions could use. An index is included. (Contains over 250 references.
New Directions for Institutional Research, 2006
Action research involves researchers and practitioners in collaborative projects and provides a m... more Action research involves researchers and practitioners in collaborative projects and provides a means of integrating evaluation into the reform process.
Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective, 2013
The strands of this book suggest that the dominant global policy model of financing the expansion... more The strands of this book suggest that the dominant global policy model of financing the expansion of higher education increasingly through loans is unsustainable. In England, one of the largest and most violent student protest since the broke out in 2010. Over 50,000 students and the wider public protested against a tuition increase from a previously nominal level. Similar protests took place in countries such as Canada, Chile, France, Germany, and the USA. Given the intense protests and policy debates in many countries, the questions of how the growing costs of higher education should be financed and what implications tuition increases have for college access are emerging as key issues in international education policy (OECD, 2012; Wilkins, Shams & Huisman, 2012).
F inancial assistance to college students increased from a meager $557 million in 1963-1964 (Lewi... more F inancial assistance to college students increased from a meager $557 million in 1963-1964 (Lewis 1989) to a phenomenal $55.7 billion in 1996-1997 ("Average Cost of Tuition" 1997). Because of the enormity of this investment it is not surprising that a single policy question-How do prices and student subsidies influence the ability of students to persist?-has motivated much of the research on the economic aspects of persistence over three decades (St. John 1994). The economic studies examine how financial assistance equalized opportunities to persist in college for those students in need of financial support (St. John et al. 1994; Andrieu and St. John 1993; Astin 1975; Terkla 1985). However, because financial aid is not the only reason students persist in college (e.g., Stampen and Cabrera 1986, 1988), recently researchers have developed more complete models that seek to explain how finances interact with other factors that influence college persistence (e.g., Cabrera, Nor...
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Research in Higher …, 1994
This paper uses the 1987 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study to compare five alternative app... more This paper uses the 1987 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study to compare five alternative approaches for assessing the influence of student aid on within-year persistence by traditional college-age students enrolled in four-year colleges. Three ...
Review of Higher Education, 1991
... financial aid types on year-to-year persistence of high school seniors of 1980 found social a... more ... financial aid types on year-to-year persistence of high school seniors of 1980 found social and educational background had differential effects at different points in the college experience,college experiences were influential, student aid had a positive effect on persistence, and ...
Research in Higher Education, 1990
Most research on student price response was conducted on students who entered college before the ... more Most research on student price response was conducted on students who entered college before the Pell Grant program was implemented in fall 1973. This study uses the High S¢hool and Beyond Sophomore ¢ohort, the High School Class of t982, to analyze the effects of the amount of tuition charged and aid offered on student enrollment decisions. The findings include (1) all forms of financial aid-grants, work, and Ioans-were effective in promoUng enrollment; (2) one hundred dollars of aid (any type) had a stronger influence on enrotlment than a one-hundred-dollar reduction in tuition; (3) Iow-in¢ome students were more responsive to increases in grant aid than to increases in loan$ or work study; and (4) high-income students were not responsive to changes in aid amounts. Student price response is a wide]y discussed issue in higher educafion, yet there is very little recent research on how price changes-tuition or financial aid awards-influence enrollment decisions. Most of the student demand studies reviewed in widely read meta analyses (e.g., Jackson and Weathersby, 1978; McPherson, 1978; and Leslie and Brinkman, 1988) cornpared findings from studies of students who entered college before the Pell Grant program was implemented. Many of these studies did not even consider the influence of student aid, but instead focused exclusively on tuition. And there has been very little reseärch on student price response using more recent data. And the one recent, national, cross-sectional study that explicitly examined student price response (Schwartz, 1985) used estimated tuition charges and loan eligibility rather than actual amounts, an approach to price-response research that is
Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective, 2013
We view globalization as an ambivalent phenomenon. It spreads neo-liberal and managerialist belie... more We view globalization as an ambivalent phenomenon. It spreads neo-liberal and managerialist beliefs in the wholesome effects of free markets around the world, but it also brings human rights based beliefs in equal opportunity to people in all corners of the globe. As these ideas spread, all three of the above models come up hard against the emerging social and moral realities of the 21st century. The old ‘elite only’ model excludes too many talented children of the lower classes from access to higher education in addition to flagrantly violating even the semblance of equal opportunity. The social-democratic model in which all qualified candidates can access higher education at no or little cost has boosted equity, but turned out to be both too expensive and too inefficient to be a viable candidate for future policies.
WIDENING ACCESS TO EDUCATION AS SOCIAL JUSTICE, 2006
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Special Issue by Edward St. John
Education Sciences, 2022
The post-neoliberal period of economic competition emerging in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ... more The post-neoliberal period of economic competition emerging in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for the education systems within nations, altering opportunities for social capital formation for students and families making educational choices in rapidly changing global markets. This Special Issue of Education Sciences fosters research-informed dialogue about how shi ing global patterns of educational attainment and inequality, including economic competition and social mobility, influence educational attainment and inequality within and across nations. an
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