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  2. University student retention - Wikipedia

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    According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, tuition at a 4-year college represented 12% of the total income for families that fell into the lowest income bracket in 1980, and rose drastically to encompass 25% of their income by 2000. [6] This has created an influx of part-time students and working students.

  3. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education - Wikipedia

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    The amendment created the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education as the system's governing body. To maintain academic independence from state politics, the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education was created in 1941 through constitutional amendment (Article XIII-A), governed by the ...

  4. Persistence studies - Wikipedia

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    Persistence studies is scholarship in the social sciences that links, usually through quantitative causal inference, historical events with later political, ...

  5. Persistence - Wikipedia

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    Persistence (discontinuity), a concept in geotechnical engineering; Persistence (linguistics), a principle of grammaticalization; Persistence (psychology), a personality trait; Persistence of vision, a theory on how the illusion of motion in films is achieved; Persistence forecasting, predicting the future to be the same as the present

  6. Issues in higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Higher education in the United States is an optional stage of formal learning following secondary education. Higher education, also referred to as post-secondary education, third-stage, third-level, or tertiary education occurs most commonly at one of the 3,899 Title IV degree-granting institutions in the country. [1]

  7. Oklahoma State System of Higher Education - Wikipedia

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    The State System is coordinated by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and each institution is governed by a board of regents. There are currently three constitutional boards of regents that govern a majority of colleges and universities in the state: the OSU/A&M Board of Regents, the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, and ...

  8. Perdurantism - Wikipedia

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    It is a fusion of all the perdurant's instantaneous time slices compiled and blended into a complete mereological whole. Perdurantism posits that temporal parts alone are what ultimately change. Katherine Hawley in How Things Persist states that change is "the possession of different properties by different temporal parts of an object".

  9. Credibility thesis - Wikipedia

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    According to the credibility thesis, institutional persistence, meaning the survival and change of particular institutions through time is determined by the function of the institution and actors' expectations of the institution to play that function. The Credibility Thesis has put forward “that what ultimately determines the performance of ...