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Introduction: Reauthorization: An Opportunity For Substantive Change In How Students Pay For College, Jacob P. Gross
Introduction: Reauthorization: An Opportunity For Substantive Change In How Students Pay For College, Jacob P. Gross
Journal of Student Financial Aid
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Guest Editor’S Column: Preparing For Reauthorization Of The Higher Education Act, Laura W. Perna
Guest Editor’S Column: Preparing For Reauthorization Of The Higher Education Act, Laura W. Perna
Journal of Student Financial Aid
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Back To The Future: What Previous Hea Reauthorizations Might Say About The Next One, Dan Madzelan
Back To The Future: What Previous Hea Reauthorizations Might Say About The Next One, Dan Madzelan
Journal of Student Financial Aid
For 50 years, the Higher Education Act has been the primary vehicle for advancing federal higher education policy. Many policymakers and interested observers expect its upcoming reauthorization to address three overarching topic areas: college affordability, institutional quality, and student safety. Indeed, previous reauthorizations have addressed specific issues within each of these areas—expanded financial aid availability and process simplification, third-party (accreditors and states) oversight of institutions, and assurances that students have safe learning environments. Yet we cannot say that these are settled issues. This article describes previously implemented policies in the hope that a better understanding of the past might help …
Does Federal Financial Aid Policy Influence The Institutional Aid Policies Of Four-Year Colleges And Universities? An Exploratory Analysis, Don Hossler, Jihye Kwon
Does Federal Financial Aid Policy Influence The Institutional Aid Policies Of Four-Year Colleges And Universities? An Exploratory Analysis, Don Hossler, Jihye Kwon
Journal of Student Financial Aid
There is a dearth of empirical work that examines the relationships between federal financial aid policy and institutional financial aid priorities and expenditures. This study uses Resource Dependency Theory to explore whether changes the amount of financial aid awarded by colleges and universities during the last fifty years are best explained by changes in federal financial aid policy or by demographic and economic shifts. The results suggest that shifts in federal financial aid policy and in the economy have influenced the amount of institutional financial aid, but indicate that more research is needed on this important topic.
Editor's Column, Jacob P.K. Gross