scholarly journals What Did Aid Administrators Perceive to Be the Impact of PPY on Students and Aid Offices?

10.28945/4269 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 001-025
Author(s):  
Valerie A Mockus
Keyword(s):  
Financial Aid ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Financial Health ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Insight Into

Through the 2016-2017 academic year, student aid applicants completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid used the immediately previous year’s tax information. Beginning in 2017-2018, students were required to use two-year-old tax return information creating a lag in the timeliness of financial health data used to calculate financial aid eligibility. This older data is called Prior-Prior Year (PPY) by the aid community. Community members in support of the change expected college applicants to have more time to apply for aid and make decisions. Others articulated concerns that use of the older data would increase the likelihood of families requesting professional judgements (manually intensive calculations with more recent tax data), therefore significantly increasing the workload. Early detractors worried the older tax data would erode the accuracy of targeting aid to the right students. This pilot phenomenological study investigates how financial aid administrators perceive the impact of the switch to PPY on students and financial aid offices. The findings were: the volume of professional judgements did not appear to increase; the Department of Education’s choice to re-ask for 2016 tax information and penalize students with discrepancies by withholding aid disbursements was objectionable; the administrative burden is worrisome; college affordability is of great concern; administrators, never coming to a career financial aid intentionally, find their work deeply meaningful. This study finds the expected issue of an increased volume of PJs did not materialize but an unexpected issue of complying with comment code 399 requirements arose likely due to the Department of Education’s choice to not consult financial aid administrators during the design and implementation of PPY. As the first phenomenological study on PPY, this article provides administrators and researchers alike insight into opportunities for improvement in future FAFSA changes.

scholarly journals FAIDRAS: „GIMDYMO GROŽYJE“ FENOMENOLOGIJA

Problemos ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Skirmantas Jankauskas
Keyword(s):  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Favorable Condition ◽  
Human Relation ◽  
Phenomenological Aspect ◽  
Ethical Thinking ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Natural Way

Straipsnyje mėginama rekonstruoti platoniškosios meilės sampratos fenomenologinį aspektą. Šios sampratos kontūrus Platonas nužymi dar „Puotoje“, tačiau daugiausia dėmesio jai skiria bene poetiškiausiame ir mįslingiausiame savo dialoge „Faidras“. Įvadinėje dalyje teigiama, kad graikiškasis filosofavimas klostosi natūraliai, t. y. tematizuoja filosofavimui rūpimus turinius, tik susiklostant filosofavimui palankioms aplinkybėms. Brandą pasiekusi filosofija jau mėgina perprasti save, taigi ir įsisąmoninti tas natūralias prielaidas. Platonas dar „Puotoje“ nustato, kad palankiausia filosofavimui natūrali žmogaus būsena yra meilė. „Puotoje“ jam pavyksta išryškinti vertybinį meilės profilį, o filosofavimas čia aprašomas kaip grožio vertybės užangažuotas „teisingasis kelias“, kreipiantis mąstymą grynojo teorinio žinojimo link. Pati meilė čia traktuojama dar gana neapibrėžtai, t. y. kaip „gimdymas grožyje“. Sutelkdamas dėmesį į žmogiškąjį santykį, „Faidre“ Platonas kaip tik imasi detalizuoti „gimdymo grožyje“ fenomenologiją. Platonas struktūruoja sielą, t. y. pavaizduoja ją kaip vadeliotojo važnyčiojamą sparnuotą dvikinkę. Grožio veikiama ši dvikinkė pasikelia į uždangės sritį, ir vadeliotojui palankiausiu atveju pavyksta išvysti „tiesos lygumą“. Metaforiškai aprašytos sielos dalys straipsnyje susiejamos su atitinkamomis kasdienio ir etinio mąstymo temomis bei teoriniu mąstymu apskritai, o sparnuotumas – su vertybiškumu. Sekant Platono aprašyta sielos dalių dinamika pavyksta parodyti, kaip veikiant grožiui teorinis mąstymas gali tematizuoti etiškumo temą ir veikiai pelnyti būties įžvalgą. Pagrindiniai žodžiai: meilė, šėlas, tiesa, būtis, grožis, gėris, natūralus filosofavimas, fenomenologijaPhaidros: Phenomenology of “Giving Forth upon the Beautiful”Skirmantas Jankauskas   SummaryThe author makes an attempt to reconstruct the phenomenological aspect of Plato’s concept of love. The contours of this concept are only outlined by Plato in his Symposium to be later developed in his probably the most poetic and enigmatic dialogue Phaedrus. A hypothesis is put forward here that love as ‘madness’ – as described in Phaedrus – could be treated as a further elaboration of the concept of ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’ as portrayed in Symposium. The article starts with a thesis that Greek philosophizing  proceeds in a natural way, i.e. it thematises the preferred contents only within favorable external circumstances. As philosophy reaches its maturity, it tries to learn itself, i.e. to realize these favorable natural circumstances. It is already in Symposium that Plato establishes that love is the most favorable condition for philosophizing. In this dialogue Plato manages to elucidate the axiological profile of love. Philosophizing is presented as the ‘right way’ to be engaged by the beautiful and to lead towards pure theoretical thinking. Love itself is treated in an inde terminate way as ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’. By putting the human relation in the focus of attention, Plato reveals in his Phaedrus the phenomenology of ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’. He describes the soul as ‘a team of winged steeds and their winged charioteer’. Affected by the beautiful, this ‘team’ climbs the boundaries of the heavens and the ‘charioteer’, in the utmost case, manages to contemplate the ‘plain of truth’. In the article, those metaphorically described parts of the soul are associated correspondingly with themes of everyday thinking and ethical thinking as well as theoretical thinking in general, while wingness is related to valuesness. Tracing the dynamics of the parts of the soul, as portrayed in Phaedrus, the author manages to describe the way in which theoretical thinking thematises the theme of ethical thinking and attains the insight into being under the impact of the beautiful. Keywords: love, madness, truth, being, the beautiful, the good, natural philosophising, phenomenology.p;

Predicting the impact of perturbations on salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) communities: implications for monitoring

2004 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1166-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
M R Arkoosh ◽  
L Johnson ◽  
P A Rossignol ◽  
T K Collier
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Contaminant Exposure ◽  
Community Model ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Chemical Contaminant ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Twenty-six salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) stocks from the Pacific Northwest are listed as either threatened or endangered. A number of anthropogenic factors, likely including degradation of habitat by chemical contaminant exposure, have contributed to their decline. Techniques that can assess injury or judge the efficacy of regulatory actions on the recovery of this species are needed. We strive to understand why a population is changing by examining changes in their intrinsic birth rates, death rates, and (or) growth rates. However, salmon populations are influenced by other species in the community. To address this issue, we developed a parsimonious three-trophic-level community model consisting of prey, salmon, and parasites and examined the model's response to one anthropogenic factor (contaminant exposure) using qualitative analysis. This community model may not only provide valuable insight into salmon survival but also may broaden the approaches available to elucidate direct and indirect effects. We demonstrate analytically that some community members, possibly salmon themselves, might be ambiguous or unreliable variables to monitor. We also demonstrate that other species in the community, such as parasites, may be more sensitive than salmon in monitoring the influence of anthropogenic factors such as contaminants.

Impact of Merit-based Financial Aidon Student achievement

2014 ◽  
pp. 112-126
Author(s):  
O. Poldin ◽  
M. Yudkevich
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
First Year ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Average Distribution ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Russian Universities

Some Russian universities provide tuition fee discount to their students conditioned on their academic achievement. The paper examines the impact of this type of financial aid on student performance. The amount of this discounts for the first academic year depends on the admission test results, and its extension for the second year depends on the student’s academic achievement in the first year. Using regression discontinuity design and quantile regression, we show that financial aid stimulates the performance of those fee-paying students, who are in the upper part of the grade-point-average distribution.

The Impact of Delivery Synergies on Bidding in the Georgia School Milk Market

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Marshall ◽  
Matthew E. Raiff ◽  
Jean-Francois Richard ◽  
Steven P. Schulenberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Parametric Estimation ◽  
Sealed Bid ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Right ◽  
Milk Market ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract Each summer milk processors around the country participate in sealed bid procurements for the right to provide public schools with milk throughout the subsequent academic year. School district contracts are an important part of vehicle routing problems that milk processors solve on an ongoing basis. There are allegedly substantial cost savings for a milk processor from servicing a district that is directly adjacent to one they already service. In this paper, following the work of Krishna and Rosenthal (1996), we construct a procurement model allowing for cost synergies. The equilibrium bid function maps directly into an empirical specification. Using data from a time period when bidders were allegedly acting non-cooperatively, our structural parametric estimation results give significant support for the presence of cost synergies in the bidding.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Social Innovation Education on Student’s Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
Irene Kalemaki ◽  
Ioanna Garefi ◽  
Aristidis Protopsaltis
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Innovation In Education ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

This paper presents the findings of the H2020 NEMESIS project that aims to design, test and validate a consolidated approach for embedding Social Innovation in Education. Social Innovation Education (SIE) is a new educational approach that aims to empower students to take action for a more democratic and sustainable society. During the academic year 2018-2019, eight schools from five European countries applied the NEMESIS SIE framework by involving 56 teachers, 1030 students and 69 community members in a variety of SIE approaches. This paper reports on these attempts with a particular focus on analysing their impact on student’s engagement. Data were retrieved through focus groups with 80 people, an online survey to 206 students, interviews, classroom observations and students’ narratives. Research findings suggested positive outcomes for students in terms of emotional, cognitive, behavioural and agentic engagement. Findings also showed a positive influence of SIE on the cultivation and progression of students’ social innovation competences.  These initial findings have the potential to pave the way for more research in the under investigated field of SIE as well as to encourage policies and initiatives for promoting social innovation in education.

The Rush to Transparency: DA-RT and the Potential Dangers for Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Renwick Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Current Version ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

What is the impact of the recent Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) initiative and the Journal Editors Transparency Statement (JETS) on scholars working with qualitative data? Analysis finds DA-RT insufficiently sensitive to the needs of qualitative data and focuses on four inter-related reasons why DA-RT needs to be revised before being widely adopted by political science journals: (1) space constraints that hinder full journal presentation of the analysis of qualitative data; (2) ethical concerns about protecting human subjects, and the time needed to prepare such data before publicly sharing them; (3) costs of data collection and the right of first usage; and (4) a potentially chilling effect of DA-RT on certain types of research topics. Analysis of the author’s own journey from econometric and survey analysis to narrative interviews with people in vulnerable situations, facing moral dilemmas, illustrates why DA-RT needs additional safeguards for qualitative data and methods. Given the increasing importance of qualitative data, and its ability to lend insight into critical political topics, the author argues that implementing the current version of the DA-RT initiative could hinder political science’s ability to address important political questions. Thus DA-RT must be modified to address the special needs of qualitative data.

The Impact of Threat Type and Prior Abuse History on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122095216
Author(s):  
Baylee D. Jenkins ◽  
Alexis M. Le Grand ◽  
Jonathan M. Golding ◽  
Kellie R. Lynch ◽  
Georgie Wolbert
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Abuse History ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Intimate partner sexual victimization often involves perpetrators using threats to coerce victims into sexual activity. However, little research has investigated perceptions of this coercion. We presented 99 community members with intimate partner sexual coercion vignettes that varied abuse history (between-participants) and type of threat used to coerce the victim into sex (within-participants; that is, physical assault, financial, children taken). We found that physical assault threats led to higher pro-victim judgments than nonviolent threats. These findings provide insight into how sexual violence involving coercion is perceived in different contexts.

scholarly journals More Than a Hostile Environment: Exploring the Impact of the Right to Rent Part of the Immigration Act 2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Crawford ◽  
Kim McKee ◽  
Sharon Leahy
Keyword(s):  
Original Data ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Housing Professionals ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

This article is based on original data from a qualitative study on the impact of the Right to Rent part of the Immigration Act 2016 in Scotland. Our findings show that in addition to being an integral part of the government’s project of creating a ‘hostile environment for immigrants’, the process of extending the state’s ‘law and order’ functions to organisations responsible for providing welfare services and distributing public goods is of wider political importance. Here, we argue that this process, what Bourdieu calls the rightward tilting of the bureaucratic field, results in widespread discrimination as it entails a shift in focus of its criminalising gaze from ‘conduct’ to ‘status’. The effects of this rightward shift altered the categories through which welfare services were both conceived and delivered more widely. We found that the almost universal opposition of the housing sector to the unwanted imposition of duties previously confined to border control agencies shows the extent to which the state is not a unitary monolith but is, rather, a site of perpetual struggle and contestation. By locating the perspective of housing professionals in relation to the government’s attempts to redraw the boundaries of the state’s own responsibility, we can gain a valuable insight into the processes of state crafting, which have wider implications beyond merely the creation of a hostile environment for immigrants.

scholarly journals Big Tech and the Right to Freedom of Thought

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Brittany Morison
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Individual Decision Making ◽  
The Past ◽  
Freedom Of Thought ◽  
Independent Decision ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Over the past few decades technology has become ubiquitous, with technology companies gaining increasing insight into the lives of individuals. This paper explores how technology companies use these insights to influence the ability to exercise free and independent decision-making. Through a critical analysis of social nudging, I establish the subtle but significant ways in which individuals can be susceptible to manipulation. Through this lens, I highlight some notable examples of how big tech companies have manipulated individual decision-making and the impact this may have on our democracy. 

scholarly journals Customized Nudging to Improve FAFSA Completion and Income Verification

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay C. Page ◽  
Benjamin L. Castleman ◽  
Katharine Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Financial Aid ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
College Matriculation ◽  
Behavioral Barriers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
College Financial Aid

Informational and behavioral barriers hinder social benefit take-up. We investigate the impact of mitigating these barriers through providing personalized information on benefits application status and application assistance on filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the gateway to college financial aid. Through a multidistrict experiment, we assess the impact of this outreach, delivered via text message. This data-driven strategy improves FAFSA completion and college matriculation and potentially reduces the negative consequences of additional procedural hurdles such as FAFSA income verification, required of approximately one third of filers nationally.

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