Trey Miller

A primary purpose of military education benefits is to assist service members' transitions back to civilian life, but the benefits likely have implications for recruiting and retention as well. This research takes a mixed-methods approach to examine the effects of education benefit programs on recruiting and retention-related outcomes, and to assess how the two largest education benefits may work together.

The report provides a quantitative analysis of the differences in the career progression of officers based on gender, as well as the factors that explain these differences. Gender differences in career progression can be partly explained by differences in job-related and individual characteristics, such as occupation and marital status, and partly by differences in the association between these characteristics and career progression.

This report assesses the Texas experience in the context of national competency-based higher-education movement. Competency-based education in Texas is examined through six institutions that currently offer these programs and recent state efforts to support them. The approach included review of relevant documents, webpages, and interviews with program administrators, a sample of students enrolled in one of the programs, and a state policymaker.

India has joined a worldwide trend in which nations are seeking to improve the quality of their higher education systems by giving greater autonomy and accountability to higher education institutions. In this report, the authors review India's and other countries' higher education systems and suggest seven policy actions that the Indian national government and other stakeholders can take to improve higher education by linking funding to quality.