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Nina R. Wilson-Keenan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Financial Aid Awards for first-time college students include a variety of offerings, including scholarships, grants, and loans. One award of financial assistance, Federal Work-study, is different from other types of financial aid awarded in that students must work to earn the funds. Yet, it is included as estimated financial assistance (EFA) and…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Student Financial Aid, College Students, Financial Support
Soliz, Adela; Long, Bridget Terry – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
Due to rising costs and declining affordability, many students have to work while attending college. The federal government takes a major role in subsidizing the wages of college students and spent over $1 billion on the Work-Study program in 2010-11 (College Board, 2011), yet little is known about how working during the school year impacts…
Descriptors: Student Employment, College Students, Work Study Programs, Federal Programs
Helmcamp, Leslie – Center for Public Policy Priorities, 2012
The Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) provides written testimony on the Senate Higher Education Committee interim charges exploring student financial aid and the issue of student loan debt Texas institutions of higher education. This paper highlights recommendations for strengthening and improving the financial aid system in Texas to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Public Policy, Debt (Financial)
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Minaya, Veronica – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that decomposes overall effects into a weighted average of effects for marginal and inframarginal workers. We then…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Financial Support, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Minaya, Veronica – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. This document contains the appendices to the report "Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Financial Support, Student Financial Aid, Program Effectiveness
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Curtis, Wendell – Change, 1975
Students at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, work 15 hours a week at an on-campus job for room and board, cutting the cost of education for both the students and the school. Various characteristics and advantages of the mandatory work program, in operation since 1894, are described. (JT)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education
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Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
Guidelines for students seeking financial aid are provided for six federal programs. General information about seeking financial aid and rights and responsibilities of the student as consumer are outlined. The following federal aid programs are covered: the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program, the Guaranteed Student Loan Program, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Higher Education
Saunders, Jack O.L. – 1969
The Teacher Education Cooperative Program, begun in 1965-66 at New Mexico State University, provides capable students with invaluable experiences in the work and study phases, as well as an opportunity to finance their education. The work and study phases alternate, each approximately 6 months long. The curriculum for the study phase consists of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College Students, Cooperative Education, Cultural Awareness
Lee, John B.; Malgoire, Mary A. – 1975
Information is given on the number of Mexican American students that received aid from College-Work Study, National Direct Student Loans, and Supplemental Education Grants in the 1972-73 school year. Data are based on the 1970 Census and the 1972-73 fiscal operations forms filled out by student aid officers to account for Federal funds spent in…
Descriptors: Census Figures, College Students, Federal Aid, Financial Support
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Phillips, John; And Others – 1973
This document reviews the management of ten student assistance programs, including: the Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG), the State Student Incentive Grants (SSIG), the Supplementary Educational Opportunity Grants program (SEOG), the College Work Study program (CWSP), the National Direct Student Loan program (NDSL), the Guaranteed…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Policy, Financial Support, Higher Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
The passage of S. 2539, the College Opportunity Act of 1978, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the basic educational opportunity grants program, is recommended in this Senate report from Senator Claiborne Pell. The bill provides for: (1) a rate no higher than 10.5 percent in determining a family's expected contributions from…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Legislation, Family Income, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1978
The passage of H.R. 12274, the Middle Income Student Assistance Act, to amend Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the availability of assistance to middle-income students is recommended in this House report from the Committee on Education and Labor. The purpose of H.R. 11274 is to provide needed financial assistance to…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Legislation, Family Income, Federal Aid
Stedman, Jim; Scott, Marcia – 1978
Information is provided on 14 federal programs providing financial assistance to undergraduate students in universities, colleges, and vocational/technical schools. The programs provide three different types of assistance: grants (or scholarships), loans, and job earnings. Grants and scholarships do not have to be repaid, but loans do. Some of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Eligibility, Federal Aid
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Hood, Albert B.; Maplethorpe, Cheryl K. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1980
Research findings regarding the impact of financial aid on the academic lives of college students, their grades, their academic loads, and their persistence are summarized. The five areas of financial aid studied are parental support, scholarships and grants, loans, work, and aid packages. (Author/JMD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Financial Support, Grants
Smith, Pat; Henderson, Cathy – 1977
Questions have been raised concerning the function served by each of the federal need-based student aid programs and the relationship between them: Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG), Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), College Work-Study (CWS), and National Direct Student Loan (NDSL). Analysis of the student aid packages…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Family Income, Federal Aid
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