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Download full textMoran, Mary – 1987
The impact of student aid policies on women is assessed. Patterns of enrollment and economic profiles differ for male and female students. Women, for example, far surpass men as adult, part-time, independent, and unclassified students, the categories most likely to present barriers to participating in most financial aid programs. Gender issues in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Krehbiel, Lee E.; MacKay, Kathleen – 1988
Undergraduate volunteerism work is discussed, noting volunteer service can be a vital part of an undergraduate education. This service has taken many forms over the years, from folding bandages for soldiers at war, to providing tutorial services for elementary and secondary school children, to staffing medical programs in Appalachia. It…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, College Students, Community Services, Extracurricular Activities
Ascher, Carol – 1986
The increasing number of black students in private schools has been stimulated partly by concern about the adequacy of the public schools; a desire by parents for greater choice about, and control over, their children's schooling; and a desire to find schools with values similar to their own. Private school efforts to draw minority students have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Catholic Schools, Educational Philosophy
Layzell, Daniel T.; Lyddon, Jan W. – 1990
State budgeting for higher education is a complex, multifacted process which is influenced by conditions outside both state government and higher education including the historical traditions, political culture, economic and demographic aspects of a state. Noted is the need of higher education to compete with other policy areas for resources and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
Green, Kenneth C. – 1982
Current levels of federal and state support to increase access to higher education and the barriers now being faced are considered, based on a Higher Education Research Institute report. The postwar transition from elite to mass to universal higher education has been accompanied by major changes in government support. State governments have…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Students, Educational History
Jones, Dionne J.; Watson, Betty Collier – 1990
This report reviews the literature on high-risk students at the higher education level in terms of the following questions: are high-risk students and nontraditional students the same? what is the impact of high-risk students on institutions of higher education? are high-risk students treated differently in elementary and secondary schools? do…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
