Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0826515029
ISBN 13
9780826515025
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
360
Subject
Student aid--United States. Student aid--United States--History.
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Abstract
From the first scholarship given to Harvard in 1643 to today's world of enrollment management and federal grants and loans, the author gives a lively social and economic history of the conflicting purposes of student aid. His research for this book is based on archives and interviews at 131 public and private institutions across the United States.
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Contents
Prologue: A Gift Goes Awry 1
Part I. The American Way of Student Aid
1. Setting the Record Straight
2. Aid in History: Who Got It, What Shaped It
3. Enter Uncle Sam
Part II. The Way of Elite Colleges
4. The Roots of Student Aid
5. Merit and "Self-Help"
6. Seeking Equity and Order
7. Choosing the Best
8. New Strategies
9. Containing the Market
Part III. Reforming the System
Appendix 1. The Case of the Charitable Price Fixers: U.S. v. Brown University et al.
Appendix 2. Research Strategy and Limits
Appendix 3. Interviews and Archive Research by State and Institution
Appendix 4. Watch Your Language: A Glossary of Financial Aid
Prologue: A Gift Goes Awry 1
Part I. The American Way of Student Aid
1. Setting the Record Straight
2. Aid in History: Who Got It, What Shaped It
3. Enter Uncle Sam
Part II. The Way of Elite Colleges
4. The Roots of Student Aid
5. Merit and "Self-Help"
6. Seeking Equity and Order
7. Choosing the Best
8. New Strategies
9. Containing the Market
Part III. Reforming the System
Appendix 1. The Case of the Charitable Price Fixers: U.S. v. Brown University et al.
Appendix 2. Research Strategy and Limits
Appendix 3. Interviews and Archive Research by State and Institution
Appendix 4. Watch Your Language: A Glossary of Financial Aid
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