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Download full textKim, Sie Won – Urban Institute, 2023
For many high school students, the cost of attending college poses a major barrier to continuing their education. Federal student aid provided through Pell grants, work study, and loans can offer students with low incomes an avenue toward receiving a postsecondary education. But for students to be eligible for federal student aid, they need to…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Graduation Requirements, Financial Needs
Peer reviewedSerna, Gabriel R. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2019
This review explores the expanding role of federal aid policy considered from a contemporary and social justice perspective. It highlights recent trends in aid policy as well as difficulties that arise from the current system. Next, the review takes up an analysis of current aid policy that carefully considers equity and efficiency as primary…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Financial Support, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NJ1), 2012
From 2000-2001 to 2010-2011, the total amount of federal financial aid awarded to students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) jumped from $64.0 billion to an estimated $169.1 billion, a 10-year increase of 164%. For 2010-2011, the Title IV programs accounted for 72% of the $235 billion in total financial aid received by college…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Profiles, Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs
PDF pending restorationPhillips, 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
Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1996
This report presents the results of a review of all state student financial aid programs in Florida and presents recommendations concerning program consolidation. The review was designed to address a variety of aid-related issues, including unexpended financial aid resources, program consolidation, budget request and aid distribution procedures,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Eligibility, Higher Education
McPherson, Michael S. – 1988
This discussion of how the effectiveness of federal student aid can be evaluated is framed in terms of three questions: (1) Has federal student aid expanded educational opportunity; that is, has it encouraged the enrollment and broadened the educational choices of disadvantaged students? (2) Has federal student aid made the distribution of higher…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy
Cervantes, Angelica; Creusere, Marlena; McMillion, Robin; McQueen, Carla; Short, Matt; Steiner, Matt; Webster, Jeff – TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation), 2005
The Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 has opened the doors of higher education to millions of academically qualified students. Like most bills that pass Congress, the HEA had resulted from numerous compromises. Congress has had several opportunities to review and modify the legislation over the years, but a solid foundation had been laid in 1965…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equal Education, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid
Greenleaf, Walter, J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
More than 1,000 institutions of higher learning in the United States are now offering work of college grade to some 900,000 students. These institutions include regular 4-year colleges and universities, independent professional schools specializing in law, medicine, dentistry, theology, engineering, etc., 2-year junior colleges, colleges for…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Attendance, Personal Narratives, Enrollment
