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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1988
A summary of the information presented at a May 31, 1988 meeting between the staff members of the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education and the General Accounting Office (GAO) is provided. The information represents preliminary results of the GAO analysis of the characteristics of borrowers and defaulters in the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL)…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Support
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
The report presents information collected by the U.S. General Accounting Office on the Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) program, which provides market rate loans to postsecondary students in addition to, or in lieu of, other financial aid such as Stafford Loans and Pell grants. Some of the data are as follows: over $3.2 billion in SLS loans…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Donors, Educational Finance
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
Information is presented on student default rates at 7,800 postsecondary schools. The report builds on previous data and offers a summary analysis of the approximately 1.2 million 1983 borrowers' rates of default by kinds of schools that borrowers and defaulters attended and length in years of their schools' academic programs. Information is…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Loan Repayment, National Surveys
Horn, Laura J.; And Others – 1995
This report profiles undergraduates enrolled in postsecondary education for the academic year 1992-93. It relies on data from the 1992-93 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, third in a series conducted by the Department of Education. The report begins with an essay that explores the extent to which undergraduates have outside…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. National Inst. of Independent Colleges and Universities. – 1978
The Tuition Advance Fund (TAF) bill is analyzed on theoretical economic grounds, and forecasts of the net costs of the proposed program up to 1990 are offered. The TAF bill proposes the establishment of a new system of college loans as an addition to existing programs to allow students to borrow tuition plus an allowance for other costs. Novel…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Nelson, Susan C. – 1980
Two contentions are examined in this report: that community colleges receive a smaller amount from state and federal assistance programs than they should in view of the less affluent population they serve, and that there is, on the other hand, a prevalence of individual over-awarding at these colleges. The report first discusses the difficulties…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Family Income, Federal Programs, National Surveys