Did the Recession Impact Student Success? Relationships of Finances, Staffing and Institutional Type on Retention

A place too crowded to study: The impact of student cohort growth on the probability of university dropout

“…The findings of Bound and Turner (2007), based on the US data, indicate that the decline in successful completion rates seen in the second half of the 20th century is due in part to the lower public expenditure per student. A positive relationship between the level of expenditure and persistence is also found in further studies (Crisp, Doran, & Reynes, 2018;Gansemer-Topf, Downey, Thompson, & Genschel, 2018;García-Estévez & Duch-Brown, 2014).…”

“…Based on decomposition analyses, Bound et al (2010) show that, of the 4.6% point decline in success rates between 1972 and 1988, 1.1% points can be attributed to the reduced staff-student ratio. A negative correlation between the student-lecturer ratio and success rates was similarly observed for the Spanish context (García-Estévez & Duch-Brown, 2014), while a further US study shows that only the part-time staff-student ratio is positively associated with the retention rates in contrast to the full-time staff-student ratio (which is negatively associated with the retention; Gansemer-Topf et al, 2018). The findings of Johnes and McNabb (2004) would suggest that, while the staff-student ratio reduces the risk of voluntary dropout, it increases the risk of involuntary dropout (contrary to expectations).…”

“…Chen (2012), by contrast, does not find any substantial influence of instructional expenditure on success rates. The results are similarly mixed with regard to the expenditure on academic support measures (Chen, 2012;Johnes & McNabb, 2004;Webber, 2012) as well as in respect of the staff-student ratios (Gansemer-Topf et al, 2018;García-Estévez & Duch-Brown, 2014;Johnes & McNabb, 2004).…”

Aspects Of Financial And Economic Operations Of Primorsky Region Higher Education Institutions

“…These challenges are closely connected between themselves due to the fact that attractiveness of universities for businesses of different levels, domestic and foreign consumers of education services may not only bring goods ranks to the universities in the global rankings, but also promote their rapid transition to self-sufficiency, and, as a result, to their financial sustainability (Wang, 2017). However, higher education institutions nowadays experience significant difficulties in searching additional financial resources (Gansemer-Topf, et al, 2018;Marginson, 2018;Son-Turan, 2016;Palfreyman & Tapper, 2016).…”

Gender, legislative experience, and party affiliation: Examining the relationship between state legislator attributes and funding for higher education

“…Over the past few decades, funding for higher education has witnessed the steepest reductions during such recessionary periods, most notably during the early 1990s, early 2000s, and the Great Recession of the late 2000s and early 2010s (State Higher Executive Officers Association, 2019). That postsecondary education enrollments commonly increase during economic downturns has only compounded the harmful effects of such funding reductions (Barr & Turner, 2013;Gansemer-Topf, Downey, Thompson, & Genschel, 2018).…”