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Alabama State Commission on Higher Education, Montgomery. – 1987
Following a description of the establishment of the Alabama Student Grant Program (which provides direct grants to bonafide residents of Alabama for attending undergraduate school at specified nonprofit, independent Alabama institutions), information is provided on student eligibility requirements. Applicants must meet such criteria as having…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Eligibility, Financial Aid Applicants, 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

Northern Virginia Community Coll., Annandale. Office of Institutional Research. – 2001
The Office of Institutional Research (OIR) at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) conducts analytical studies and provides information in support of institutional planning, policy formation, and decision making. This OIR report, prepared in conjunction with the Financial Aid Office, analyzes dependent students who applied for financial aid…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dependents, Educational Planning, Financial Aid Applicants
Eureka Project, Sacramento, CA. – 1988
Student financial aid in California is a major, complex educational industry, with expenditures of approximately $1,500,000,000 for 1988. Information is provided on whether the student financial system as a whole has made a critical difference to who can afford to go to college, who has gone to college, and where students have gone to college. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Policy Analysis. – 1988
This report, the sixth in a series by the New York State Education Department Office of Postsecondary Policy Analysis provides the only complete accounting of financial aid available to students at New York's degree-granting postsecondary institutions. It shows trends in financial aid from state, federal, institutional, and private sources for the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends
Eureka Project, Sacramento, CA. – 1988
Following an explanation of the Eureka Project, which studies the financing of higher education opportunities in California, introductory information is provided on the effects of student financial aid in California on both students and colleges. Some points to be considered in understanding the relationship between student aid and institutional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Atelsek, Frank J.; Gomberg, Irene L. – 1977
The third in a series by the Higher Education Panel, this survey of student aid programs and participants focused on selected characteristics of aid recipients representative of those at 3,000 colleges and universities. Aid distribution was analyzed by the students' sex, racial or ethnic group, enrollment status (full- or part-time), and income…
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnic Groups, Family Income, Federal Programs
Tenison, Laurence J. – 1974
The National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972 collected data on the attributes of students attending postsecondary institutions. The NLS also collected the names of any postsecondary institutions this cohort of students attended and/or applied to during the first two years after high school. In order to provide a link…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Colleges