Student Aid Game (eBook)

Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education

Michael McPherson, Morton Schapiro (Autoren)

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2021
176 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23091-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In The Student Aid Game, Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro explain how both colleges and governments are struggling to cope with a rapidly changing marketplace, and show how sound policies can help preserve the strengths and remedy some emerging weaknesses of American higher education. McPherson and Schapiro offer a detailed look at how undergraduate education is financed in the United States, highlighting differences across sectors and for students of differing family backgrounds. They review the implications of recent financing trends for access to and choice of undergraduate college and gauge the implications of these national trends for the future of college opportunity. The authors examine how student aid fits into college budgets, how aid and pricing decisions are shaped by government higher education policies, and how competition has radically reshaped the way colleges think about the strategic role of student aid. Of particular interest is the issue of merit aid. McPherson and Schapiro consider the attractions and pitfalls of merit aid from the viewpoint of students, institutions, and society. The Student Aid Game concludes with an examination of policy options for both government and individual institutions. McPherson and Schapiro argue that the federal government needs to keep its attention focused on providing access to college for needy students, while colleges themselves need to constrain their search for strategic advantage by sticking to aid and admission policies they are willing to articulate and defend publicly.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Zusatzinfo: 3 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Ability to pay • Academic year • Admit-deny • after-tax income • Aid • alumnus • American Freshman Survey • Amherst College • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • Attendance • Award Letter • Bachelor's degree • Bowdoin College • Breneman, David • Calculation • Campus-based programs • class size • Clinton, Bill • College Board • community college • Competition • Cost of attendance • credential • Dartmouth College • debt • Differential packaging • Direct Loan Program • doctorate • Earnings gaps • Economic indicator • economist • Education • educational program • Education in the United States • Education Policy • Enrollment management • Equal Opportunity • Equal opportunity issues • Expenditure • Expense • Faculty (academic staff) • Federal Perkins Loan • Federal Perkins Loan program • federal student aid • Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant • Federal Work-Study (FWS) program • Financial Health • For-profit higher education in the United States • freshman • Full-Time Student • Funding • Gapping • Gender differences, merit aid and • Grade inflation • Grading (education) • Harvard College • higher education • Home Equity • Honors Scholarship program • HOPE Scholarship • Improvement • income • Institution • Institutional Fund • Johnson, Lyndon • Kane, Tom • Loans • Market Value • Meiszkowski, Peter • Merit aid • Michael Rothschild • Middle-income melt • National Center for Education Statistics • National Merit Scholarship Program • National policies, role of • National policy • Need-aware second review • Need-blind admission • Needs analysis system • Nixon, Richard • of education • opportunity cost • Payment • Pell Grant • Pell Grants • percentage • Percentage point • Peterson's • PLUS program • Practice (learning method) • Price war • Pricing • Private School • private sector • private university • progressive tax • Project • Public institution (United States) • Public sector • Public university • repayment plan • Requirement • Revenue sources, changes in • SAT • Sauvageau, Yvon • saving • Scarcity • Scarcity (social psychology) • Scholarship • school choice • school counselor • Secondary School • Selective school • sophomore • Stafford Loan • Stafford loans • State and local government aid • Stecklow, Steve • stipend • Student • student loan • Subsidy • Tax • Tax break • tax credit • Tax credits or tax deductions, for tuition • Tax Cut • Tax deduction • Tax expenditure • Trade-off • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • United States Department of Education • University • university of vermont • Upper-income students, college selection by • Wellstone, Paul • Wesleyan College • Williams College • Winston, Gordon • Work programs • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23091-9 / 0691230919
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23091-7 / 9780691230917