Reviews the basic concepts governing student aid funding and the mechanics of delivery, including a review of the development of current federal financial aid programs, the complexities of determining student need, institutional responsibility, and suggested areas for institutional research. Notes that the challenges ahead include strengthening…

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) has initiated a program in which practicing student aid professionals, on request, conduct a thorough review of a college or university's student aid operation, using comprehensive assessment materials and tools developed by NASFAA. The review examines program compliance,…

Describes the new system of financial aid at Princeton University, which is designed to blunt Princeton's image as a school for wealthy students and to increase enrollment of gifted students from working class families. Whether this will in fact increase enrollment of black students at Princeton is questioned. (SLD)

In "Zelman v. Simmons-Harris," the Supreme Court of the US made it clear that governments do not unconstitutionally "establish" religion merely by permitting eligible students to use publicly funded scholarships to attend qualifying religious schools, so long as the students' parents are able to make a "true private…

An end-of-the-year report for the 1987-88 Pell Grant program is presented. The Pell Grant program, administered by the Department of Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance, receives more federal funds than any of the other five student financial aid programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and its…

Proposes that the present educational entitlement system of 13 years be extended to lifelong learning placing the full number of years of public entitlements into an individual educational account which could be drawn upon for specified educational purposes at any time. (BR)

Briefly reviews reports of two experiments in Portland and Baltimore that gave vouchers for Education-Training (ETR) to Work Incentive Program (WIN) participants. (BR)

Describes a study and methods used by Navy Campus to choose a funding arrangement that would make the best use of the money available for voluntary educational purposes. Discusses modifying the economic concept of price elasticity to the interests of educationally oriented audiences. (JOW)

In fiscal year 2004, the federal government made or guaranteed about $84 billion in loans for postsecondary education through two loan programs--the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and the Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP). Under FFELP, private lenders fund the loans and the government guarantees them a minimum yield and repayment…

This participant guide contains training materials for processing applications for student financial aid under the EDExpress system. Representatives of institutions of higher education receive training in the use of EDExpress software that allows the school to manage student financial aid records. The guide contains these sessions: (1) welcome and…

This study examined the growing inequality in wealth among the Ivy League institutions. In July 1990, the endowments at the 8 Ivy League institutions varied from about $441 million at Brown to $4.683 billion at Harvard. A decade later, the range was $1.44 billion to $19.2 billion. The Ivy institutions' endowments grew by an average of 261% during…

The purpose of this research was to: 1) identify the competencies considered essential for entry-level administrators of financial aid at four-year universities, and 2) determine what method of training leads to these competencies according to financial aid directors. A Computer-based Delphi process was implemented because of its flexibility and…

This guide contains training materials for processing applications under the EDExpress system. The first session reviews changes in the application delivery system for 2001-2002, including those related to the: (1) Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA); (2) FAFSA on the Web; (3) Student Aid Report (a paper form that is mailed to the…

This update reviews affirmative action cases in higher education in the context of the Supreme Court's recent decision to hear the Michigan affirmative action cases. The Supreme Court's decision on the Michigan cases will be the first Supreme Court opinion on affirmative action in higher education since "Bakke." Individual federal circuits and…

In response to growing concern about the impact on economic prosperity resulting from the low level of higher educational attainment in Maine, two bills calling for study of that issue were introduced in the 120th Maine Legislature. A commission was created to develop a plan to improve the state's level of higher educational attainment. This…