Nathan Daun-Barnett

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Department Chair & Associate Professor at University at Buffalo, State University of New York

In December 2012, researchers from the University at Buffalo partnered with Buffalo Public Schools and Say Yes to Education—Buffalo to assist students and families with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The community had just announced a last-dollar tuition guarantee for all public and charter high school graduates. Students had...

This study examines the impact of the community college baccalaureate policy across Florida. In 2001, the state legislature granted St. Petersburg College authorization to offer a limited number of baccalaureate degrees in approved program. Since that time, 18 community colleges across the state have offered 111 degree programs. This study examines...

Students and parents rely on Web-based tools to navigate the college-choice process, yet little research has been done to understand this environment. While this shift has made the process easier to navigate for some, we contend that the move will grow an already large digital divide in the USA. We use Hossler and Gallagher's college-choice framewo...

There may be no better survey of state policy in higher education than what Heller provided in his 2001 edited volume. His early work was well conceived, highly readable for both academic and public policy audiences, and a valuable framework that the field has used for more than a decade to discuss the evolving role of policy in American higher edu...

Key Points · This article focuses on a particular approach to large-scale, community-based educational change – Local College Access Networks in the state of Michigan – to answer two key questions: What factors serve to shape the social-change agenda? How can community foundations serve to promote and advance the agenda? · A multidimensional framew...

Student’s access to college is influenced both by their level of academic preparation to do college-level work and the cost of participating in postsecondary education—on this point researchers and policy makers seem to agree (Perna, 2006). The relative importance of each, however, is very much a subject of disagreement and that debate has implicat...

Key Points · Community foundations have a long history of supporting college access, particularly through the management of scholarship programs. This article examines the role of community foundations in the creation and establishment of local college access networks (LCAN) across the state of Michigan. · We use the collective impact model as a fr...

Mathematics education is a critical public policy issue in the U.S. and the pressures facing students and schools are compounded by increasing expectations for college attendance after high school. In this study, we examine whether policy efforts to constrain the high school curriculum in terms of course requirements and mandatory exit exams affect...

For the past 10 years, a growing number of community colleges in the US have begun to offer baccalaureate degrees across a range of targeted programmes including business, education, and nursing. This study examines whether community college baccalaureate policies result in an increased production of nurses — currently a policy priority in nearly e...

During the past two-decades, Indiana improved in both high school-graduation and college-enrollment rates compared to other states. The Twenty-first Century Scholars Program, a statewide project that guarantees student aid and provides support services to low-income students, along with state-wide efforts to provide college preparatory courses in a...

Does state policy influence how well students are prepared to attend college? For the past 25 years, state and federal policies have focused attention on the high school curriculum with concern about whether or not students would be adequately prepared to pursue postsecondary education by the time they finish high school. Increasingly, states have...

This brief will review the impetus and recommendations of the Cherry Commission, compare its process and recommendations with those of its predecessors in the state and contemporary com- missions from other states, and consider the likelihood that the Cherry Commission Report will succeed in its effort to improve Michigan's economy through the impr...

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the utility of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a descriptive, diagnostic and analytical tool in higher education research and public policy development. In this paper GIS and how it has been used as a research tool in higher education and other disciplines is described, and a state level exam...