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LaCognata, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this dissertation was to understand the financial aid personnel's perspective on the impacts of middle-income student loan borrowing. Student loan borrowing is a concern for many due to the current debt reaching extraordinary amounts. This research explored the impacts specifically on middle-income students as opposed to low- or…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, School Personnel, Attitudes, Middle Class
Michael Galperin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
I use rich administrative data and several quasi-experiments in Texas to study which students benefit most from college grant aid and why. For "extensive-margin" students, grant aid causes enrollment in college, and therefore has potentially large benefits relative to these students' no-college counterfactual. In contrast,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, College Attendance, Financial Support
Hill, Catharine Bond – ITHAKA S+R, 2021
As policy makers consider revisions to the Higher Education Act (HEA), understanding the impact of increasing the size of Pell grants is important if it is to have the intended impact of improving educational outcomes for lower income students across the various types of colleges and universities. Understanding institutional behavior is a place to…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Rosinger, Kelly Ochs; Belasco, Andrew S.; Hearn, James C. – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
In response to goals of expanding access as well as public pressure to leverage substantial endowment resources toward increasing affordability, numerous elite colleges have enacted policies aimed at improving access and affordability by replacing student loans with grants in financial aid packages. No-loan policies, however, differ in the extent…
Descriptors: Middle Class, College Students, Private Colleges, Student Financial Aid
Institute for College Access & Success, 2023
State need-based financial aid programs are a key driver of college access and completion for lower-income students and racially marginalized students in California, most of whom attend public two- and four-year colleges and universities and come from families with annual incomes of less than $40,000. As the state's largest need-based financial…
Descriptors: State Programs, Access to Education, Minority Group Students, Student Financial Aid
Catt, Drew – EdChoice, 2019
In November 2018, EdChoice and ExcelinEd administered a first-of-its-kind survey of Florida private school leaders. The survey results demonstrate three things: (1) private schools in Florida are affordable; (2) they have the capacity to serve many more students; and (3) capacity could be further expanded if more tuition assistance was made…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Private Education, Tuition, Scholarships
Thomas-Wollmann Fuller, Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2019
At no other time in American history has the need for post-secondary educational attainment been so pervasively necessary. Since 2007, three in every four jobs created has required a bachelor's degree or higher. Such a prerequisite to fiscal viability occurs parallel with rising costs of college attendance, a nebulous financial aid process,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Choice, Undergraduate Students, Middle Class
Brymner, Jake – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2020
The COVID-19 health crisis has laid bare the structural inequity in the financial aid system. The pandemic has hit the lowest-income students hardest, with many struggling to afford the basic technology for online learning on top of new or exacerbated food and housing insecurity. Federal and state dollars predicated on Pell Grant eligibility, time…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Student Financial Aid, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Education Trust, 2013
America's financial-aid system has become almost impossible to navigate and burdensome for those who need it most. Tuition and fees are skyrocketing, forcing almost half of college-going students to borrow. Low and middle-income students are taking on frightening levels of debt. Bachelor's degree recipients leave school with an average of $26,600…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs, Federal Government
Dannenberg, Michael; Voight, Mamie – Education Trust, 2013
America's college financial-aid system has helped millions of students obtain a postsecondary education, but the system's flaws are increasingly apparent. Growth in tuition and fees outpace available resources, particularly for students striving to rise out of poverty. Low- and middle-income students confront frightening levels of education debt.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs, Federal Government
Burd, Stephen – Education Sector, 2012
The last several years has seen significant cuts to federal student aid funding to shore up the budget of the Pell Grant program, the primary source of government aid to low-income students. But in this paper, the author argues that there's a better way to keep the Pell Grant program viable: elimination of the American Opportunity Tax Credit and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Tax Credits, Student Financial Aid, Grants
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Santos, José L.; Sáenz, Victor B. – Educational Policy, 2014
The authors paint a national portrait of Latina/o trends over more than 30 years in terms of demographic and financial concerns that pertain to access at 4-year institutions. Using a multiple policy streams framework, the authors contend that growing numbers of Latina/os are in the eye of the perfect storm in a global economy that calls for more…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Higher Education
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income--post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the…
Descriptors: Family Income, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid
Mercer, Charmaine – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2013
When President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law in 2002, the U.S. national high school graduation rate was 72.6 percent. Today, the national high school graduation rate has reached an all-time high of 81 percent and the number of low-graduation-rate high schools has declined considerably. While this progress is notable,…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Finance Reform, Access to Education
Howard, Muriel A. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Surmounting a national--indeed global--recession in the wake of war is not new to America or its leaders. Born out of one of the nation's darkest moments of the 20th century were bold initiatives to empower those who served their country as well as all who sought to enter the American middle class. The GI Bill of Rights was one such measure, as…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Middle Class, Tax Credits, War
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