TV Networks for College Sports: Implications for Institutional Subsidies

University athletics because of its reporting structure, regulation by the NCAA, and relationship to the academic enterprise of institutions, provides a unique look into postsecondary institutional behavior. Using a difference-in-difference design, this study tests the introduction of new television networks dedicated to college sports on institutional subsidy levels for athletics. Overall, our findings show that institutions are responsive to the introduction of new college-sports-dedicated television networks. When considering institutions in the Power Five athletic conferences, we find an average decline in subsidy levels of approximately $1.2 million. When considering different types of subsidies, we find significant declines in direct subsidies and student fees, but no significant change for indirect subsidies.

Compact Spiral Asymmetric encryption Distributed Ledger –Secured and authentication Mobile Payment System in Higher Institutions

Looking at the higher learning institutions, there is no question that the current methods for paying student fees are inefficient, inconvenient, and wasteful of time. In addition, the rise in the number of students studying in higher learning institutions has led to long frustrating queues and overcrowding in most financial institutions during payment of student fees. This paper sought to design and implement a secure block chain-based payment system for higher learning institutions in developing countries. Students are to use the proposed payment system to pay tuition fees and other student fees to their respective higher educational institution. In addition, students are to use the proposed payment to pay for goods and services provided by the institution and other merchants in the institution’s premises. In this study, object oriented software development methodology was used to implement the proposed payment system. The proposed system consists of a mobile e-wallet, RESTful API, and blockchain as the core component of the API.

Pay to Play? How Reducing APSA Division Fees Increases Graduate Student Participation

ABSTRACT In 2017, the American Political Science Association (APSA) Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession launched an initiative to lower the cost of Division (i.e., organized section) membership for students to promote graduate students’ professional development and to advance Division interests. This article assesses the effect of this intervention on Division membership. Using APSA membership data, we find that almost two thirds of Divisions that charged fees in 2017 reduced or eliminated student fees between 2017 and 2019, nearly halving the average student dues (i.e., from $11.57 in 2017 to $5.84 in 2019). As a result, average student membership increased by more than 300% in Divisions that reduced fees (i.e., from 79.5 in 2017 to 248.7 in 2019), compared to a marginal 30% increase in those that did not reduce fees. These outcomes of the initiative support additional efforts to reduce the costs of APSA participation for graduate students.

Problematika Pembelajaran Membaca Al-Qur’an di Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri Ujung Gurap Padangsidimpuan

This research was conducted using descriptive qualitative methods with a sample of 4 BQ teachers from 8 existing BQ teachers and 33 students (grade VII). Then this research was carried out by collecting interview and observation data while the technique guarantees the validity of the data in this study was to use triangulation. The results of this study have found a change in the attitudes and nature of the students in learning to read the Qur'an at MTs N Ujung Gurap even though the results achieved have not been maximized. This is in accordance with the answers to the interviews with BQ teachers and VII grade students of MTs N Ujung Gurap, namely the implementation of learning to read the Qur'an including planning, implementation, and evaluation. While the obstacles encountered include the lack of student fees, the facilities are still minimal and the allocation of time is lacking, the solution is to provide motivation, utilize existing facilities and make available time efficient

The Resilience of Japan’s Private Universities

This chapter returns to the dire predictions made in the early 2000s for the future of private higher education in Japan and finds that, while individual examples can be found on a micro level which support them, on a macro scale the evidence almost all points in the opposite direction. The number of private universities, students in private universities, the proportion of students going to private universities, full-time academic staff, revenue from student fees, and government subsidies are all greater and larger in 2018 than they were in 2004. The value of a university credential can be argued to have improved rather than to have been devalued. The development of alternative markets and modes of operation have been much more muted than predicted. Finally, predictions of the number of universities which would go bankrupt have proven spectacularly inaccurate. This chapter not only outlines these trends but also explains some of the reasons for them at the macro level. The final section of the chapter examines some of the key actions which have allowed private universities to survive the last fifteen years. It suggests that the power of various actors to contend with the macro forces in the early 2000s was greatly underestimated. It may well have been the dominant theoretical assumptions which commentators and academics brought to their analysis in the early 2000s which explains why their predictions for private higher education have not come to pass.

NCAA Expenditure and Efficiency: Analyzing Generated and Allocated Revenue in the Football Bowl Subdivision

Using a stochastic production function approach and a dynamic panel data estimator, this study creates estimates of time-varying efficiency in the production of generated revenues for NCAA Division I football bowl subdivision athletic programs. These efficiency estimates are then compared to the use of allocated revenues—fees from students and direct payments from the university budget—by college athletic departments. While all schools that are less efficient in the production of generated revenue are shown to use allocated revenue more intensively, a major finding is power-conference schools that are less efficient in their use of expenditure inputs tend to rely more heavily on allocated revenue in the form of student fees to support the activities of the program.

PERANCANGAN APLIKASI AKADEMIK SISWA BERBASIS WEB RAUDHATUL ATHFAL (RA) RA MASHITOH 03 CILOPADANG (MAJENANG)

Internet as a center of information and communication among the public. By providing adequate convenience and flexibility, it is very helpful for promotion in the service sector and others. The author analyzes the running information system of RA MASHITOH 03. So that the Raudhatul Athfal application has been made, this is an application that can help parents and students to see the progress of their children's grades and payment of dues and can do online consultations without having to come directly to school. This application runs on the website and integrates with applications that are on the server using php and mysql, the admin is in charge of filling in grades to students which then the application will store student grade data which will be entered into the database. In this system the admin can also input payments student fees and answer consultations from parents regarding their children's problems. This application can also save costs compared to when parents come directly to school, which costs money and takes a long time to travel to school.