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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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106-2 Hearings: Rising Cost Of College Tuition And The Effectiveness Of Government Financial Aid, S. Hrg. 106-515, February 9 And 10, 2000
Author: Rising Cost of College Tuition and the Effectiveness of Government Financial Aid
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental AffairsPublisher:
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Category : College costs
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental AffairsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
Author: William G. BowenPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813933399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the "natural aristocracy of talent and virtue." Although in many ways American higher education has fulfilled Jefferson's vision by achieving a widespread level of excellence, it has not achieved the objective of equity implicit in Jefferson's statement. In Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin explore the cause for this divide. Employing historical research, examination of the most recent social science and public policy scholarship, international comparisons, and detailed empirical analysis of rich new data, the authors study the intersection between "excellence" and "equity" objectives. Beginning with a time line tracing efforts to achieve equity and excellence in higher education from the American Revolution to the early Cold War years, this narrative reveals the halting, episodic progress in broadening access across the dividing lines of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The authors argue that despite our rhetoric of inclusiveness, a significant number of youth from poor families do not share equal access to America's elite colleges and universities. While America has achieved the highest level of educational attainment of any country, it runs the risk of losing this position unless it can markedly improve the precollegiate preparation of students from racial minorities and lower-income families. After identifying the "equity" problem at the national level and studying nineteen selective colleges and universities, the authors propose a set of potential actions to be taken at federal, state, local, and institutional levels. With recommendations ranging from reform of the admissions process, to restructuring of federal financial aid and state support of public universities, to addressing the various precollegiate obstacles that disadvantaged students face at home and in school, the authors urge all selective colleges and universities to continue race-sensitive admissions policies, while urging the most selective (and privileged) institutions to enroll more well-qualified students from families with low socioeconomic status.
Rising Cost of College Tuition and the Effectiveness of Government Financial Aid
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental AffairsPublisher:
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Category : College costs
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Hearing on the Rising Cost of College
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long LearningPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Hearing on College Costs and Federal Assistance
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary EducationPublisher:
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Category : College costs
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Keeping College Affordable
Author: Michael S. McPhersonPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815716693
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely. This book assesses the role of government subsidies for higher education—especially but not exclusively federal student aid—in keeping college affordable for Americans of all economic and social backgrounds. The authors examine the effects of student aid policies of the last twenty years. They address several vital questions, including: Has federal student aid encouraged the enrollment and broadened the educational choices of disadvantaged students? Has it made higher education institutions more secure and educationally more effective—or has it raised costs and prices as schools try to capture additional aid? Has federal student aid made the distribution of higher education's benefits, and the sharing of costs, fairer? And what are the likely trends in patterns of college affordability? Drawing on their analysis, the authors highlight some of the principal dimensions of policy choice on which the debate has focused, as well as some that have been relatively neglected. Building upon their conclusion that student aid works, they propose reforms that would bolster the role of income-tested aid in the overall student financing picture. McPherson and Schapiro recommend a number of incremental reforms that could improve the effectiveness of existing federal aid programs and present a proposal to replace a substantial fraction of state-operating subsidies to colleges and universities with expanded federal aid.
College Student Aid Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on EducationPublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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What Factors Affect College Tuition?
Author: Carol FrancesPublisher: American Association of State Colleges & Universities Press
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Category : College costs
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This report analyzes both the trends in college tuition paid by students, and the trends in higher education costs paid by institutions, and offers insights into the relationships between them. Data are presented to show that the annual rate of increase in college tuition has dropped significantly since the early 1980s. A four-factor model is presented to explain upward and downward pressures in total college tuition revenues; the model includes changes in enrollment, costs, share of total costs covered by student tuition, and resources invested. The report examines the legitimacy of comparing trends in college tuition with the Consumer Price Index and the Higher Education Price Index. The report then discusses: (1) the costs of particular goods and services purchased by colleges and universities; (2) trends in faculty and staff salaries and efforts to hold down compensation costs; (3) state higher education appropriations; (4) shortfalls in federal student aid funding; and (5) shortfalls in funding for research. The final two chapters fit tuition into the larger picture of college and university finance and analyze the outlook for college costs and college tuition in the 1990s. Forty-six charts illustrate the findings and are documented in the appendix by tables of data. (JDD)
