Author : State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : College costs
ISBN :
Author : United States. Student Financial Assistance Study Group
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Federal aid to higher education
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence Gladieux
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081570724X
Each year, millions of American families struggle with the expense of higher education. For the past fifty years, the U.S. government has helped students and families pay for college; but with the entire domestic policy agenda in flux, federal aid to education hangs in the balance. This book analyzes government policies for helping students pay for education beyond high school. It is being published at a time when aid to education is a prominent issue in battles over the federal budget and policymakers are debating the need for and effectiveness of federal student assistance programs. Starting with the post-World War II GI Bill, the book reviews the 50-year history of federal student aid legislation, assesses the results, and identifies trends and problems that cloud the future of this critically important national effort. The authors draw on the thinking of the country's top experts in examining the rationale and structure of the student aid system and how it might more effectively expand college opportunities while ensuring educational quality. Their analysis encourages policymakers to consider the multiple objectives of government aid—not just getting more students into college, but promoting student success and degree completion. The book offers a framework for future policy debates aimed at improving a system vital to America's economic future and its continued promise of opportunity. Copublished with the College Board / Dialogue on Public Policy
Author : United States. Department of Education. Federal Student Aid
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2007
Category : College choice
ISBN : 9781422325315
Author : Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC.
Publisher :
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN :
Millions of students and adult learners who aspire to college are overwhelmed by the complexity of student aid. Uncertainty and confusion rob them of its significant benefits. Rather than promote access, student aid often creates a series of barriers--a gauntlet that the poorest students must run to get to college. Replacing complexity with a steady stream of encouragement that makes access to college simple and certain is a top priority of Congress and the higher education community. Congress mandated this simplification study as part of the current reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in order to identify and eradicate major sources of complexity in student aid. This study found that sweeping and cost effective simplification initiative could significantly improve access and increase the return on the nation's already sizable investment in student aid. To dismantle this gauntlet, four imperatives have emerged: (1) empower students to make sound decisions about higher education; (2) make it easy to ensure students get their financial aid; (3) lose the paper to create an integrated web-based student aid system; and (4) work together in forging creative public-private access partnerships. These four imperatives are translated into ten recommendations to Congress and the Secretary of Education that, if implemented, will result in direct benefits to all students and families, but especially to the very poorest. Eight of the ten recommendations do not require an increase in program costs. Aspects of two of the recommendations require a small investment that, if necessary, can be phased in over several years. Appended are: (1) List of Abbreviations; (2) Contributing Panelists; (3) EZ FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Prototype; and (4) Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance Members and Staff. (Contains 59 endnotes and 2 exhibits.).
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2020-07-08
Category :
ISBN : 9264411496
This report, which focuses on four US states – Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington – is the third of a series of country-specific reviews conducted as part of the OECD project on the labour market relevance and outcomes of higher education. he report offers a comprehensive review of graduate outcomes and policies supporting alignment between higher education and the labour market in the four participating states in 2018-19, an overview of the US labour market and higher education context, and a range of policy examples from across OECD jurisdictions to help improve the alignment of higher education and the labour market.
Author : Student Financial Services
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
**** The 1993 edition is cited in ARBA 1995. A handbook that provides socioeconomic and market-trend data for the major consumer markets of Latin America, primarily in the form of statistical tables. Section 1 examines factors driving the Latin American economy, and considers the relative strengths of each country as a potential consumer market. Section 2 presents a series of regional marketing parameters, while Section 3 provides a comparative overview of consumer markets for the whole region. Sections 4 to 11 deal with individual countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia. Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela), presenting data under a series of standard headings, and moving from background parameters, such as demographics and economic indicators, to consumer market data for a range of products. Distributed by Gale Research. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Roland Keene
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Education
ISBN :
Covering all forms of financial assistance to students--gifts, loans, and work--this first comprehensive book on the subject takes a hard look at what is going on in American colleges and universities. The twenty-eight original essays, written for the volume, are especially timely for two reasons: first, institutions of higher education, both public and private, have a heightened interest in institutional financial support from all sources, including that available from student tuition (and thus indirectly from student financial-aid sources); and second, state and federal agencies, especially Congress, are reviewing and revising the aid programs which they sponsor (a matter of grave concern to institutions which depend on such funds for a substantial portion of their incomes). Divided into five parts, the work covers the philosophy and history of financial aid to students in American universities and colleges, the various programs currently in force, the organization and administration of student financial assistance, professional careers open to advisors, counselors, and administrators, and an overview summing up the ideas and recommendations of the distinguished professionals who have contributed to the volume. Though addressed primarily to administrators and to students of higher education, the book should be read by policy-makers--by college and university presidents and deans, by trustees, and by state and federal legislators.
Author : Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Student aid
ISBN :
Author : National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :
The rules, systems and processes that work for traditional, term based, brick and mortar programs do not always work to advance the innovation that currently exists within higher education, and the recommendations in this paper are the first step to help ensure barriers are eliminated that stifle this innovation. Innovative learning models provide a means for individuals to learn independent of time or place in order to earn a higher education credential that is credible to both academic institutions and employers. The Higher Education Act (HEA) and Title IV regulations (34 CFR 600.2), look at "seat time"--students completing a certain number of courses and hours within a defined academic period with certain requirements on instructional time. Reauthorization of the HEA, while keeping credit and clock hours, needs to create an alternative way of looking at higher education focused on evidence of student learning--what students actually know and can do--instead of time. Ultimately, the federal student aid system must be updated to allow for greater access to programs offered in innovative formats--that are not based on traditional credit hour or clock hour models. A guiding principle of this task force is to not stand in the way of students being successful and do what is best to meet both the needs of individual learners and the institutions serving these students. The recommendations proposed by this task force focus on accelerating time to degree completion, improving access, lowering total educational cost, and keeping student loan indebtedness to a minimum. In an attempt to create an explicit process to award financial aid based on actual learning and demonstrated competency rather than time spent in class, five themes emerge. The following themes set the platform for the statutory and regulatory recommendations: (1) flexibility for students and institutions; (2) accountability; (3) cost of education and federal financial aid; (4) complexity; and (5) barriers. Appended are: (1) Recommendations; (2) Resources for Innovative Learning Models; and (3) a Glossary.
