Laura W Perna
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1320709 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura W Perna |
| NOMBRES | Laura W |
| APELLIDO | Perna |
| FIRMA | PERNA L W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6291-0649 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 332 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Does Aid Matter? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Grant Aid on College Student Outcomes
The College Board reported that, in 2022–2023, about two thirds of $177 billion in U.S. financial assistance awarded to undergraduates through programs sponsored by the federal government, state governments, colleges and universities, philanthropic organizations, and other entities was in the form of grants. While researchers have examined the effects of individual grant aid programs on particular college student outcomes, results have indicated …
The Effects of Losing Postsecondary Student Grant Aid
With the goal of informing federal and state policy makers in a time of budget constraints, we used a systematic review methodology to identify and summarize findings from studies that examined the effects of losing grant aid due to policy changes and students’ failure to meet renewal requirements. Studies reviewed in this policy brief show negative effects on student outcomes when grant aid is reduced or eliminated. While results vary, this gene…
Will college promise programs improve or reduce equity? Understanding the contextual conditions that influence program implementation
Although “free tuition” programs are politically popular, some worry that these programs will exacerbate inequity. Scholars note that program outcomes depend on implementation, but few have probed the contextual conditions that contribute to differences in implementation or the consequences of implementation for equity. To address this knowledge gap, we draw on conceptual models of implementation fidelity and case studies of last-dollar, free tui…
Improving Research-Based Knowledge of College Promise Programs
Improving Research-Based Knowledge of College Promise Programs
The Role and Contribution of Academic Researchers in Congressional Hearings
This study uses critical discourse analysis to explain how legislators determine the role and contributions of academic researchers in Congressional legislative hearings. The discursive practices that legislators use serve to construct the social identity of academic witnesses, characterize witnesses’ qualifications, solicit information from witnesses, frame comments from witnesses, and amplify and mitigate witness testimony. The findings make vi…
Understanding the Promise
Over the past decade, but especially in the past few years, programs with a promise label have been advanced at the local, state, and federal levels. To advance understanding of the design, implementation, and impact of the many different versions of emerging programs, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers need an organizing framework. To address this knowledge need, this study uses descriptive and cluster analyses of 289 programs that mee…
Understanding Student Debt
This article reflects on the major themes that emerge in the studies presented in this volume, concentrating on implications for federal policy and future research. We emphasize that for future federal policy to be successful, it will need to be revamped in ways that are relatively nuanced, encouraging (among other things) enrollment and persistence to degree completion among students who might not otherwise take loans or go to college, protectin…
Free College
Free college" has emerged in some states as a new approach for increasing educational attainment. But, these and other states have long had initiatives designed to improve college affordability. To inform how state free tuition programs may improve affordability, increase attainment, and close gaps across groups in attainment, this article begins by providing an overview of the role of state policy in promoting attainment, with particular attenti…
Understanding the human capital benefits of a government-funded international scholarship program
This study utilizes qualitative research methods to explore the human capital benefits of one government-sponsored international scholarship program – Kazakhstan's Bolashak Scholars Program – and how program characteristics and other forces promote and limit these benefits. The findings raise a number of questions for policymakers, administrators, and researchers about how a government-sponsored international scholarship program should be structu…
Reimagining the Study of Higher Education
Reply to Wiebe et al
The intent of our 2014 article titled “Moving Through MOOCs: Understanding the Progression of Users in MOOCs” was to present evidence and to stimulate evidence-based discussion about the progression of users through MOOCs. It is then a pleasure to respond to those who reacted to the article. Most attention in our response is given to the fit between questions that are asked and the limitations on data that are available to address them, and to th…
Class Warfare
The Attainment Agenda
Moving Through Moocs
This paper reports on the progress of users through 16 Coursera courses taught by University of Pennsylvania faculty for the first time between June 2012 and July 2013. Using descriptive analyses, this study advances knowledge by considering two definitions of massive open online course (MOOC) users (registrants and starters), comparing two approaches to measuring student progress through a MOOC course (sequential versus user driven), and examini…
Promoting Human Capital Development
This article sheds light on the availability and characteristics of international scholarship programs that are sponsored by national and federal governments worldwide and that are intended to promote student mobility. Utilizing descriptive and cluster analyses, the article produces a framework for organizing the population of these programs. The analyses take into account both the central characteristics of programs and economic and political ch…
State Policies and Higher Education Attainment
This article introduces a collection of empirical work that examines the role of state policy in promoting students’ progression into and through higher education. We provide an overview of U.S. state policy innovations that have occurred in recent years and we identify both the challenges and opportunities associated with studying public policy and higher education attainment in the states. The article concludes by outlining the perspectives of …
Insights and Implications for State Policy-Makers
Using a range of data and analytic approaches, the articles in this volume offer insights for understanding how state policy can increase higher education attainment and close gaps in attainment across groups. This concluding article begins by addressing the relationships between public policy and performance that cut across the volume. We then offer recommendations for state policy leaders—concrete steps that governors, legislators, and other po…
The Persistence of Unaligned K-12 and Higher Education Systems
High rates of academic remediation among college students suggest that many states have still not aligned high school and college curricular standards and assessments to ensure college readiness. One structure created by many states that is designed to improve this alignment is the P-20 Council. To understand why the lack of alignment persists despite the creation of this, and other, structures, this article draws on data collected through case s…
Breaking through the Access Barrier
(2012). Breaking through the Access Barrier: How Academic Capital Formation Can Improve Policy in Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 307-309
Resources, Assets, and Strengths among Successful Diverse Students
The Status of Equity for Hispanics in Public Higher Education in Florida and Texas
This article uses descriptive analyses of data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the status of equity for Hispanic students in public higher education institutions in Florida and Texas. The analyses show substantial inequities for Hispanics in enrollment, full-time faculty, and executive, administrative, and managerial staff. In both Texas and Florida, the greatest gaps in equity for Hispanics occur for full-time …
Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community
About the Authors. Foreword. Preface. P ART I: Communicating Expectations. 1. Knowing Today's and Tomorrow's Students ( Vasti Torres ). 2. Creating a Student-Centered Culture ( Jillian Kinzie and George D. Kuh ). 3. Aligning Expectations: A Shared Responsibility ( Thomas E. Miller and Saul Reyes ). 4. Changing Student Services Through Assessment ( John H. Schuh ). 5. Promoting and Sustaining Change ( Earl H. Potter III ). P ART II: Connecting Ser…
College Knowledge of 9th and 11th Grade Students
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAngela D. BellAngela D. Bell is a policy and planning research analyst at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Her research focuses on state higher education policy, financial aid, and college access for underrepresented populations.Heather T. Rowan-KenyonHeather T. Rowan Kenyon is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education at Boston Colle…
The Relationship between Parental Involvement as Social Capital and College Enrollment
Multilevel analyses show that the relationship between parental involvement and enrollment in a four-year college varies across racial/ethnic groups and that the likelihood of enrolling in a two-year or four-year institution depends on the volume of resources that may be accessed through social networks at the high school attended
Differences in the Decision to Attend College among African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites
Promoting Human Capital Development
This article sheds light on the availability and characteristics of international scholarship programs that are sponsored by national and federal governments worldwide and that are intended to promote student mobility. Utilizing descriptive and cluster analyses, the article produces a framework for organizing the population of these programs. The analyses take into account both the central characteristics of programs and economic and political ch…
Contextual Influences on Parental Involvement in College Going
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeather T. Rowan-KenyonHeather T. Rowan-Kenyon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia. Angela D. Bell is a doctoral candidate in higher education at the University of Georgia. Laura W. Perna is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.Angela D. BellHeather T. Rowan-Kenyon is an As…
Understanding the Relationship Between Information About College Prices and Financial Aid and Students' College-Related Behaviors
This article proposes a conceptual model for understanding the acquisition and use of information about college prices and financial aid. The model situates the process of acquiring and using information within several layers of context. Potential roles of four nested layers of context are discussed: habitus; the school and community context; the higher education context; and the broader social, economic, and policy context. Consideration of the …
Understanding the Promise
Over the past decade, but especially in the past few years, programs with a promise label have been advanced at the local, state, and federal levels. To advance understanding of the design, implementation, and impact of the many different versions of emerging programs, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers need an organizing framework. To address this knowledge need, this study uses descriptive and cluster analyses of 289 programs that mee…
Understanding the human capital benefits of a government-funded international scholarship program
This study utilizes qualitative research methods to explore the human capital benefits of one government-sponsored international scholarship program – Kazakhstan's Bolashak Scholars Program – and how program characteristics and other forces promote and limit these benefits. The findings raise a number of questions for policymakers, administrators, and researchers about how a government-sponsored international scholarship program should be structu…
College Knowledge of 9th and 11th Grade Students
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAngela D. BellAngela D. Bell is a policy and planning research analyst at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Her research focuses on state higher education policy, financial aid, and college access for underrepresented populations.Heather T. Rowan-KenyonHeather T. Rowan Kenyon is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education at Boston Colle…
The Relationship between Family Responsibilities and Employment Status among College and University Faculty
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura W. PernaLaura W. Perna is assistant professor, Department of Education Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland at College Park
Moving Through Moocs
This paper reports on the progress of users through 16 Coursera courses taught by University of Pennsylvania faculty for the first time between June 2012 and July 2013. Using descriptive analyses, this study advances knowledge by considering two definitions of massive open online course (MOOC) users (registrants and starters), comparing two approaches to measuring student progress through a MOOC course (sequential versus user driven), and examini…
A Typology of Federal and State Programs Designed to Promote College Enrollment
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura W. PernaLaura W. Perna is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Heather Rowan-Kenyon is Assistant Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Angela Bell is a doctoral candidate in the higher education program at the University of Georgia. Scott L. Thomas is Associate Professor in the Institute of Higher Education at…
Understanding the Decision to Enroll in Graduate School
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura W. PernaLaura W. Perna is Assistant Professor of Education Policy & Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park
The Status of Equity for Hispanics in Public Higher Education in Florida and Texas
This article uses descriptive analyses of data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the status of equity for Hispanic students in public higher education institutions in Florida and Texas. The analyses show substantial inequities for Hispanics in enrollment, full-time faculty, and executive, administrative, and managerial staff. In both Texas and Florida, the greatest gaps in equity for Hispanics occur for full-time …
The Role and Contribution of Academic Researchers in Congressional Hearings
This study uses critical discourse analysis to explain how legislators determine the role and contributions of academic researchers in Congressional legislative hearings. The discursive practices that legislators use serve to construct the social identity of academic witnesses, characterize witnesses’ qualifications, solicit information from witnesses, frame comments from witnesses, and amplify and mitigate witness testimony. The findings make vi…
Free College
Free college" has emerged in some states as a new approach for increasing educational attainment. But, these and other states have long had initiatives designed to improve college affordability. To inform how state free tuition programs may improve affordability, increase attainment, and close gaps across groups in attainment, this article begins by providing an overview of the role of state policy in promoting attainment, with particular attenti…
The Persistence of Unaligned K-12 and Higher Education Systems
High rates of academic remediation among college students suggest that many states have still not aligned high school and college curricular standards and assessments to ensure college readiness. One structure created by many states that is designed to improve this alignment is the P-20 Council. To understand why the lack of alignment persists despite the creation of this, and other, structures, this article draws on data collected through case s…
Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color
(2005). Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 479-482
Breaking through the Access Barrier
(2012). Breaking through the Access Barrier: How Academic Capital Formation Can Improve Policy in Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 307-309
Understanding Student Debt
This article reflects on the major themes that emerge in the studies presented in this volume, concentrating on implications for federal policy and future research. We emphasize that for future federal policy to be successful, it will need to be revamped in ways that are relatively nuanced, encouraging (among other things) enrollment and persistence to degree completion among students who might not otherwise take loans or go to college, protectin…
State Policies and Higher Education Attainment
This article introduces a collection of empirical work that examines the role of state policy in promoting students’ progression into and through higher education. We provide an overview of U.S. state policy innovations that have occurred in recent years and we identify both the challenges and opportunities associated with studying public policy and higher education attainment in the states. The article concludes by outlining the perspectives of …
Resources, Assets, and Strengths among Successful Diverse Students
A Century of Success
A Century of Success: Historically Black and Universities, America's National Treasure-Annual Report, by President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black and Universities. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 1996. 120 pp. The African American Education Data Book, Volume 1: Higher and Adult Education, by Michael T. Nettles and Laura W. Perna. Fairfax, VA: Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, 1997. 504 pp. $25.00, cloth. A Centur…
Differences in the Decision to Attend College among African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites
The Relationship between Family Responsibilities and Employment Status among College and University Faculty
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura W. PernaLaura W. Perna is assistant professor, Department of Education Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland at College Park
Understanding the Decision to Enroll in Graduate School
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura W. PernaLaura W. Perna is Assistant Professor of Education Policy & Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park
Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color
(2005). Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 479-482
The Relationship between Parental Involvement as Social Capital and College Enrollment
Multilevel analyses show that the relationship between parental involvement and enrollment in a four-year college varies across racial/ethnic groups and that the likelihood of enrolling in a two-year or four-year institution depends on the volume of resources that may be accessed through social networks at the high school attended
Studying College Access and Choice
The student financial aid programs that were authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act were intended to ensure that inadequate financial resources would not limit access to college. Nonetheless, despite substantial investment in student financial aid not only by the federal government but also by state governments, colleges and universities, and other entities, college access and choice remain stratified by socioeconomic status (SES) …
Understanding the Relationship Between Information About College Prices and Financial Aid and Students' College-Related Behaviors
This article proposes a conceptual model for understanding the acquisition and use of information about college prices and financial aid. The model situates the process of acquiring and using information within several layers of context. Potential roles of four nested layers of context are discussed: habitus; the school and community context; the higher education context; and the broader social, economic, and policy context. Consideration of the …
Contextual Influences on Parental Involvement in College Going
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeather T. Rowan-KenyonHeather T. Rowan-Kenyon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the University of Virginia. Angela D. Bell is a doctoral candidate in higher education at the University of Georgia. Laura W. Perna is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.Angela D. BellHeather T. Rowan-Kenyon is an As…
A Typology of Federal and State Programs Designed to Promote College Enrollment
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura W. PernaLaura W. Perna is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Heather Rowan-Kenyon is Assistant Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Angela Bell is a doctoral candidate in the higher education program at the University of Georgia. Scott L. Thomas is Associate Professor in the Institute of Higher Education at…
The Status of Equity for Hispanics in Public Higher Education in Florida and Texas
This article uses descriptive analyses of data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the status of equity for Hispanic students in public higher education institutions in Florida and Texas. The analyses show substantial inequities for Hispanics in enrollment, full-time faculty, and executive, administrative, and managerial staff. In both Texas and Florida, the greatest gaps in equity for Hispanics occur for full-time …
Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community
About the Authors. Foreword. Preface. P ART I: Communicating Expectations. 1. Knowing Today's and Tomorrow's Students ( Vasti Torres ). 2. Creating a Student-Centered Culture ( Jillian Kinzie and George D. Kuh ). 3. Aligning Expectations: A Shared Responsibility ( Thomas E. Miller and Saul Reyes ). 4. Changing Student Services Through Assessment ( John H. Schuh ). 5. Promoting and Sustaining Change ( Earl H. Potter III ). P ART II: Connecting Ser…
College Knowledge of 9th and 11th Grade Students
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAngela D. BellAngela D. Bell is a policy and planning research analyst at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Her research focuses on state higher education policy, financial aid, and college access for underrepresented populations.Heather T. Rowan-KenyonHeather T. Rowan Kenyon is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education at Boston Colle…
Resources, Assets, and Strengths among Successful Diverse Students
Breaking through the Access Barrier
(2012). Breaking through the Access Barrier: How Academic Capital Formation Can Improve Policy in Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 307-309
The Attainment Agenda
Moving Through Moocs
This paper reports on the progress of users through 16 Coursera courses taught by University of Pennsylvania faculty for the first time between June 2012 and July 2013. Using descriptive analyses, this study advances knowledge by considering two definitions of massive open online course (MOOC) users (registrants and starters), comparing two approaches to measuring student progress through a MOOC course (sequential versus user driven), and examini…
Promoting Human Capital Development
This article sheds light on the availability and characteristics of international scholarship programs that are sponsored by national and federal governments worldwide and that are intended to promote student mobility. Utilizing descriptive and cluster analyses, the article produces a framework for organizing the population of these programs. The analyses take into account both the central characteristics of programs and economic and political ch…
State Policies and Higher Education Attainment
This article introduces a collection of empirical work that examines the role of state policy in promoting students’ progression into and through higher education. We provide an overview of U.S. state policy innovations that have occurred in recent years and we identify both the challenges and opportunities associated with studying public policy and higher education attainment in the states. The article concludes by outlining the perspectives of …
Insights and Implications for State Policy-Makers
Using a range of data and analytic approaches, the articles in this volume offer insights for understanding how state policy can increase higher education attainment and close gaps in attainment across groups. This concluding article begins by addressing the relationships between public policy and performance that cut across the volume. We then offer recommendations for state policy leaders—concrete steps that governors, legislators, and other po…
The Persistence of Unaligned K-12 and Higher Education Systems
High rates of academic remediation among college students suggest that many states have still not aligned high school and college curricular standards and assessments to ensure college readiness. One structure created by many states that is designed to improve this alignment is the P-20 Council. To understand why the lack of alignment persists despite the creation of this, and other, structures, this article draws on data collected through case s…
Understanding the human capital benefits of a government-funded international scholarship program
This study utilizes qualitative research methods to explore the human capital benefits of one government-sponsored international scholarship program – Kazakhstan's Bolashak Scholars Program – and how program characteristics and other forces promote and limit these benefits. The findings raise a number of questions for policymakers, administrators, and researchers about how a government-sponsored international scholarship program should be structu…
Reimagining the Study of Higher Education
Reply to Wiebe et al
The intent of our 2014 article titled “Moving Through MOOCs: Understanding the Progression of Users in MOOCs” was to present evidence and to stimulate evidence-based discussion about the progression of users through MOOCs. It is then a pleasure to respond to those who reacted to the article. Most attention in our response is given to the fit between questions that are asked and the limitations on data that are available to address them, and to th…
Class Warfare
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