The impact of President Reagan's fiscal year (FY) 1988 higher education proposals on the State of Tennessee are considered in hearings held in Memphis, Knoxville, and Nashville. The focus is proposed funding cuts in higher education, with particular emphasis on cuts in student financial aid. In addition to testimony from college representatives,…

Potential negative effects that cuts in the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program might have on the financial stability of colleges and universities are addressed. The recent rapid growth of the GSL program results from the fact that it is included in that part of the credit control system excluded from appropriation limitation. Media reports…

A staff report on the availability of financial aid funds to students in California was presented to the Board of Governors of California Community Colleges and includes 13 recommendations for action. The report indicates a continuing increase in federal aid funds since 1955, with over $8 billion available in 1978-79. A review of federal and state…

This catalog is composed of brief descriptions of and extensive indexes to federal programs that provide educational benefits to the American public. It includes all programs administered by the U.S. Office of Education as well as programs administered by other federal agencies in support of educational services, professional training, or library…

If individual freedom is the American ideal, then the common practice of universal education only through secondary school is inadequate. As a matter of policy, the nation should accept the responsibility of providing all citizens with at least some form of further education that contributes toward freeing the mind. In considering future policies…

This publication is a comprehensive record of testimony and exhibits presented to the Subcommitee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives during oversight hearings on all forms of Federal student financial assistance. The hearings were conducted on May 25, June 1, June 8, June 9, June…

This document is directed toward those undergraduate colleges and universities in West Virginia currently accredited by the Board of Regents, through which a majority of the total student aid dollars directed to students in West Virginia continues to be channeled. Colleges included in the document have been called upon to furnish statistics…

This publication is a compilation of the principal state constitutional and statutory provisions governing higher education in North Carolina in force on January 1, 1975. These provisions are grouped as they relate to: the University of North Carolina; North Carolina School of Arts; disruption on campus; tuition and fees; scholarship and loans;…

This compilation of tables, graphs, and charts is intended to serve as a source document for fiscal information on the community colleges in Connecticut and to provide guidance for the fiscal planning of college operations. Data covers the financial activities of state administered operating and capital accounts of all Connecticut community…

A sample of 783 students responded to the Autumn Quarter 1975 survey on questions related to the allocation and use of mandatory student fees and opinion toward international students. The respondents recommended a broad base of support for most services from university resources and user fees as well as student fees. Selective pruning of…

Written for college-bound Navajo high school seniors and dedicated to all Native Americans, this guide presents information relative to preparation for college entrance. The following topics are discussed in detail: (1) choosing a college (financial help, college major, college size, the minority population at college, community size, and personal…

This 1976 Senate Hearing before the Appropriations Committee is concerned with student loans. Issues discussed are: (1) student loan programs; (2) educational loans to middle-income families; (3) default rate on bank loans; (4) HELP grant loan; (5) views of the Financial Aid Officers Panel; (6) proprietary career schools; (7) consumer protection;…

This report provides information on patterns of expense of students in the health professions and on the sources from which income was obtained, including any indebtedness incurred to finance the students' education. Findings indicate the proportion of married students in each class varied from 35 percent for freshmen to 65 percent for seniors.…

This report reviews the status of higher education student financial aid in Maryland in relation to equal educational opportunity, increasing dynamics of the marketplace, social necessity, general college and attendance data, general trends in the growth of higher education, a student's ability to pay, federally sponsored student aid programs, the…

This document is an intermediate planning report of the Antioch New Directions Program. This program will direct much of the energies and resources of Antioch College, Ohio toward achieving the parallel aims of student pluralism and social change. Described in this report are assessments of methods and tasks to be accomplished for these dual…