Are Indiana’s public colleges still affordable?
A summary report on the effects of state grants on persistence by full-time students in Indiana. Technical report prepared for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Education Policy Center. This report investigates the influence of state grants on improving equalizing persistence rates among full-time resident students in Indiana’s public colleges and universities. Furthermore, how state finance strategies are coordinate to maintain affordability in Indiana’s public system of higher education are analyzed. The findings indicate that Indiana has maintained a balanced approach to higher education finance, with increases in state grants to correspond to tuition increases. This strategy has been sufficient to equalize opportunities to persist in higher education. St. John, E.P., Bardzell, J., Manoil, K., Michael, R.S., Asker, E., Clements M., & Jacob S. (1999). Improving early literacy: Designing research-based interventions, Technical report prepared for th
