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…

The recent focus on student debt makes reliable data about how much students are borrowing, how borrowing patterns differ among students across different types of institutions and at different levels of enrollment, and about changes over time particularly important. While total student borrowing has grown rapidly over the past decade, the rate of…

"Trends in Student Aid," an annual College Board publication since 1983, is a compendium of detailed, up-to-date information on the funding that is available to help students pay for college. This report sorts aid into grants, loans, tax benefits, and Federal Work-Study assistance. It documents funding from federal and state governments,…

The mission of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) is to provide higher education services to the citizens of the State at an excellent level of quality consistent with the state's resources. The information in this report is provided by the financial aid officers at each NSHE institution. Each fall, institutions submit a detailed…

The report reviews trends of the literature produced mainly between 1970 and 1982 on the vocational rehabilitation of mentally retarded persons. Trends are analyzed in terms of services (vocational assessment and training) and programs (school work-study programs and the state-federal rehabilitation agency). Additional areas of consideration are…

Information on financial aid at public institutions of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education for 1974-1975 through 1983-1984 is presented, with a focus on systemwide norms, averages, and distributions for grants, loans, scholarships, and employment. In 1983-1984 financial aid was awarded to 30.5 percent of the unduplicated students at…

The 1980s movement for improved transition of handicapped youth from school to work is considered in light of similar previous movements: (1) the career education movement of the 1970s and (2) the work/study movement of the 1960s. The influence of broad social issues (such as educational reform) on outcomes for the transition movement is stressed.…

Federal, state, and institutional student financial aid expenditures are tabulated by individual program in both constant and non-inflation-adjusted dollars for the years 1980-81 through 1987-88, with percent changes since 1980-81 noted. Individual recipient averages in major programs are also presented. (MSE)

Data are tabulated on trends in generally available and specially directed federal aid, state grants, and institutionally awarded aid and in the number of recipients and dollar awards for each major aid category. (MSE)

This report presents annual data on the amount of financial assistance--grants, loans, and work-study--available to students to help pay for postsecondary education. The College Board began this data series in 1983 to track the value of financial aid over time from federal, state, and institutional sources. The report also contains information on…

A report published by the College Board shows that financial aid to college students was 8.3 percent higher in academic 1988-89 than in 1987-88. Tables show amounts for Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, college work-study, Perkins Loans, Stafford Student Loans, supplemental loans for students, parent loans, etc. (MLW)

This report presents annual data on the amount of financial assistance grants, loans, and work-study available to postsecondary students. Text and 14 tables and figures explain and display a variety of data for the period 1987-88 through 1997-98, covering virtually all federal aid and most of the state and institutional assistance programs…

This report presents annual data on the amount of financial assistance--grants, loans, and work-study--available to help students pay for postsecondary education. The College Board began this data series in 1983 to track the value of such aid over time from federal, state, and institutional sources. This year, information on federal education tax…

The aggregate financing of student aid by the federal government, state governments, and institutions over the past 25 years is discussed. Trends in the composition of aid delivered (grants, loans, and work study) are described. Over time comparisons in the numbers of recipients and aid per recipient are given by programs. (Author/MLW)

This report presents annual data on the amount of financial assistance available to postsecondary students in the form of grants, loans, and work-study. The objective of the report is to assemble the most complete, comparable, and reliable statistics on student financial aid for the 2000-2001 academic year and for years from 1963-1964 to the…