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National Inst. of Independent Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1982
Student aid records from a national sample of aid recipients attending independent colleges and universities with enrollments of more than 500 students were evaluated. It was found that recent reductions in federal student assistance and restrictions placed on program eligibility reduced substantially the number and proportion of low-income…
Descriptors: Dependents, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility, Federal Programs

Rhind, Constance – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1993
The impacts of legislated changes in both program recipients and federal costs of the Pell Grant Program are analyzed, such as the resulting numbers of dependent and independent recipients. These include the changes in award amounts received by students and the effects of particular new provisions of the grant program on its costs. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Students, Costs, Dependents
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1988
This report on need analysis and student aid delivery issues in higher education describes four sets of actions taken by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. First, the Committee voted to forward to the Congress specific recommended actions concerning technical aspects of need analysis which are designed to improve the delivery…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Novalis, Carol; Murphy, Maureen – 1979
Reporting of zero/low income by applicants for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOGs) was studied, with attention to the extent that such reporting was inaccurate. The BEOG applicant database was studied to gain understanding of the characteristics of those who report zero-income on Basic Grant applications. A random sample of 400,000 BEOG…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Dependents, Disclosure
Ellis, Richard – 1979
Volume IV of a study of program management procedures in the campus-based and Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) programs deals with a set of simulated modifications in the statements made by BEOG applicants about their financial circumstances. Various kinds of misrepresentation of income, assets, and other factors are postulated, and the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cheating, College Students, Dependents
Goldenberg, Dan; And Others – 1997
The 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) made changes in the need analysis formulas that determine the expected family contribution (EFC) used in awarding Title IV Federal student aid, altered the definition of an independent student, lowered the family size offset for independent students without dependents, eliminated home…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged