Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI)
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CHERI was established in the fall of 1998 to provide a vehicle for interdisciplinary research on higher education. Faculty and administrators affiliated with CHERI come from 5 different Cornell colleges and other academic institutions around the world. CHERI's current research interests include the implications of the growing dispersion of wealth across academic institutions, the growing costs and importance of science to universities, the financial challenges facing public higher education, the changing nature of the faculty, governance in academic institutions, improving PhD programs in the humanities and associated social sciences, improving persistance rates in STEM Field majors, and reducing inequality in access to higher education. CHERI is funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., the TIAA-CREF Institute, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Does it Take an Expert to Lead Experts? An Empirical Study of Business School Deans
(2006-03-01)Should knowledge-intensive organizations be led by experts? To explore this, the paper studies the case of the world s leading business schools. It asks the question: are top scholars leading the top schools? A statistically ... -
Relative Tuition Levels and the Educational Focus of First-Time Fulltime Community College Students
(2005-09-01)This paper employs a large panel dataset to determine whether potential enrollees in specific two-year college programs respond differently to tuition changes at community colleges and nearby public four-year colleges. ... -
Should Top Universities Be Led By Top Researchers and Are They? A Citations Analysis
(2005-10-01)[Excerpt] This paper addresses the question: should the world’s top universities be led by top researchers, and are they? The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the world’s top 100 universities ... -
Title IX Compliance and Preference for Men in College Admissions
(2005-08-01)Title IX has undoubtedly increased athletic opportunities for young high school and college women. What is less well understood is whether Title IX has had the unintended consequence of decreasing educational opportunities ... -
The Influence of the U.S. News and World Report Collegiate Rankings on the Matriculation Decision of High-Ability Students: 1995-2004
(2005-09-01)The annual U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) Guide to America’s Best Colleges is a much anticipated magazine among both high-ability prospective students and college and university administrators. In this paper we use a ... -
Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes
(2005-07-22)This paper examines how graduate outcomes for humanities students differ by the student’s gender and marital status when they enter graduate studies. I find that being married has a positive effect on both male and female ... -
Community College Revenue Disparities: What Accounts for an Urban College Deficit?
(2005-07-01)[Excerpt] This study takes a political-economic perspective to examine predictors of revenue variation in U.S. community colleges using the IPEDS 2000 Finance Survey data. Descriptive analyses of the IPEDS data indicate ... -
Equity and Efficiency of Community College Appropriations: The Role of Local Financing
(2006-01-01)The study analyzes the equity of community college financing and demonstrates intrastate variations in appropriations to community colleges. The ratio of 90th to 10th percentile values ranges from 2.0 to 2.8 in half the ... -
Do Community College Students Benefit When Transferring with Other Transfers? A Cross-Section Peer Effects Analysis
(2005-11-01)Using grouped data, Ehrenberg and Smith (2004) found that community college students who transfer to four-year colleges have higher graduation rates when attending four-year campuses with large shares of transfer students. ... -
If Community College Students Are So Poor Why Do Only 16.9% Of Them Receive Pell Grants?
(2005-06-15)In this paper the authors attempt to address the discrepancy between the perception of income levels for community college students, and the seemingly low percentage of those students who receive Pell grants. The authors ...
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