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Andrea A. Wirth – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This paper describes results of a 2023 survey of authors who applied to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Open Article Fund, a fund that supports article processing charges (APCs). The survey sought feedback about the fund's impact, value, and award criteria as well as opinions on other open access topics. Results show that the fund has had a…
Descriptors: Universities, Access to Information, Authors, Attitudes
Lynn Mellor; Kamal Middlebrook – American Institutes for Research, 2024
Universal Free Application for Financial Student Aid (FAFSA) policies are being implemented in states as a way to eliminate financial barriers to college enrollment and completion for underrepresented student groups. High school counselors play a critical role in helping students complete this graduation requirement. Texas adopted a universal…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, State Policy, Access to Education, College Attendance
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NJ1), 2008
Despite a decade of simplification efforts, students and families are often still baffled by the student aid process and cringe at the sight of financial aid application forms. Contrary to its purpose of helping students to access college, the student aid application process causes families frustration and confusion that has been cited as an…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Federal Programs, Federal Aid
Leifman, Steven – 1983
The extent to which guaranty agencies, lenders, and state secondary markets impose restrictions on Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) borrowing that go beyond federal regulations was assessed through a survey of 53 guaranty agencies. Seventeen of the agencies imposed restrictions on GSLs that go beyond federal regulations, including not loaning to…
Descriptors: Banking, College Students, Credit (Finance), Eligibility
Mortenson, Thomas G. – 1989
This document, the fifth in a series of student financial aid research reports, summarizes the results of three American College Testing (ACT) program studies of the new financial aid applicant categories of dislocated workers and displaced homemakers. The three studies involved description, verification, and simulation, respectively. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Applicants, Demography, Dislocated Workers
Marks, Joseph L. – 1981
The extent to which there may be financial barriers to postsecondary attendance in Georgia was assessed. Attention was limited to in-state undergraduate students who applied for aid during the 1979-80 academic year on the basis of need and who received some form of aid. The findings are based on a sample of over 4,600 randomly selected student…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Age Differences, Educational Assessment, Family Income