The Student Aid Game

Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education

Michael McPherson, Morton Schapiro (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

1997
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-05783-5 (ISBN)

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Student aid in higher education has become a hot-button issue. This book explains how both colleges and governments are struggling to cope with a changing marketplace, and shows how sound policies can help preserve the strengths and remedy some emerging weaknesses of American higher education.

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.

Michael S. McPherson is President of Macalester College. Morton Owen Schapiro is Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California.

Figures and Tables

Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent: Student Aid in the U.S. System of Higher Education Finance

Changing the Rules: The New Strategic Role of Student Aid

Pt. 2

Student Aid and Educational Opportunity: Are We Keeping College Affordable?

Prices and Aid: The Growing Burden on Families

Access: Student Response to Higher Prices - and Higher Returns

Choice: How Ability to Pay Affects College Options

The Future of College Affordability

Pt. 3

Student Aid and Institutional Strategy

Student Aid in Institutional Finance

How Government Aid Shapes Colleges' Behavior

Student Aid as a Competitive Weapon

Pt. 4

The Special Case of Merit Aid

Merit Aid: Its Place in History and Its Role in Society

The Institutional Perspective

The Student Perspective

Conclusion: Merit Aid - Good or Bad?

Pt. V

The Future of Student Aid

Where Do We Go from Here?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.1997
Reihe/Serie	The William G. Bowen Series
Zusatzinfo	3 line illus.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-691-05783-4 / 0691057834
ISBN-13	978-0-691-05783-5 / 9780691057835
Zustand	Neuware