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Honors Program Theses

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2009

Iowa. Dept. of Education. Senior Year Plus Program; Dual enrollment--Iowa; College-school cooperation--Iowa; High school enrollment--Iowa; College attendance--Iowa;

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Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Senior Year Plus Program In Iowa, Andrew Q. Morse Jan 2009

Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Senior Year Plus Program In Iowa, Andrew Q. Morse

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Iowa’s public institutions graduate students with the sixth highest student loan debt in the nation (Project on Student Debt, 2008). As a result, Iowa Governor Chet Culver has proposed the Senior Year Plus Program, which is a state-funded dual-enrollment program. This program’s purpose is to help alleviate the debts students incur while attending college. However, there are no examinations to this point that focus on the financial, as well as the personal and professional developmental benefits of the program, particularly in comparison to the four-year institution. The current research utilized a qualitative research design. Ten (5 Dual-Enrollers/5 Non-Dual Enrollers) participants …