Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America

Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America
ISBN-10
0826515029
ISBN-13
9780826515025
Category
Education
Pages
374
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Author
Rupert Wilkinson

Description

Wilkinson traces the history of undergraduate financial aid at American colleges and universities; the origins, purposes, and impacts of merit- and need-based aid; the federal government's role; the evolution of elite private institutions; and the current climate and concerns. The concluding chapter lays out how these factors, combined with increasing costs of attending college, impact low-income minority students and how reforms on campuses and in Washington, DC, can better serve higher education and the more disadvantaged students.

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