Examines how colleges are using financial aid to achieve enrollment and financial objectives. Discusses how use of financial aid to achieve enrollment goals presents these ethical concerns: access and equity for all students; schools who do not engage in these practices are at a competitive disadvantage; and colleges are generally only promising…

Provides an annotated list of books, articles, newsletters, and web sites that may be helpful to new and experienced administrators. Explains how some of the resources address financial aid and enrollment management from historical and structural perspectives. Demonstrates how financial aid and enrollment management function in tandem to maintain…

Presents a case study that reports on one institution's longitudinal approach to measuring the effectiveness of merit scholarships as a recruitment and retention tool. Describes a method of analysis designed to measure the economic effectiveness of merit awards from the institution's perspective and identifies policy questions related to the use…

Analyzed contemporaneous documents and interviewed participants; concluded that the National Federation of Canadian University Students (NFCUS) and the Canadian Union of Students (CUS) were instrumental in engendering mass student aid programs and low tuition fees. Although government creation of such programs co-opted catalysts of student…

New statistics reveal a slight decline in African American college student graduation rates. African Americans admitted to the most selective colleges continue to have high completion rates, while graduation rates at less selective state colleges and historically black colleges are far lower. Reasons for this difference include educational…

Demand for Pell Grant financial aid has become difficult to predict when using the current microsimulation model. This paper proposes an alternative model that uses aggregate data (based on individuals' microlevel decisions and macrodata on family incomes, college costs, and opportunity wages) and avoids some limitations of simple linear models.…

Discussion of the influence of the World Wide Web on student financial aid considers: waves of technology change, direct access to the consumer offered by the Web, business uses of the Web, student demand for on-line services, paradigm shifts in financial aid, and the constancy of change. Concludes that Web technology will significantly alter the…

Used National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data to examine how debtload influenced undergraduate persistence decisions at public and private colleges. Tuition prices had a significant negative effect on persistence, though that effect decreased from 1987-93 in all cases. At every level, private school students were more sensitive to the effects…

Profiles low-income students, focusing on financial need and the contribution of financial aid. Findings from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study show that low-income students who began their postsecondary education in 1995-1996 were less likely than their not-low-income counterparts to have earned a degree or certificate or still be…

Student aid has changed greatly over recent decades. Tuition costs have increased dramatically, increased competition for students has given rise to enrollment management, and increased funding for federal programs has led to expanded federal involvement in student financial aid. (JM)

A survey of 303 potential college students and their parents found that high price and low price institutions are evaluated higher on quality attributes than are moderately priced institutions. Further, discounts (such as financial aid) were found to have little effect on the attendance decision. Implications for the pricing strategies used by…

A community-dispute mediator with training in law, business, and organizational development talks about how and why he became a diversity trainer, the value of honoring diversity within an organization, how institutions can bring diversity issues into focus constructively, and the role of diversity training on college campuses. (MSE)

Discusses how in addition to federal regulations, student financial aid officers must understand state regulations concerning distance and Internet learning. A state challenge to the right of the institution to enroll distance learning students could deprive those students of access to Title IV benefits; if the issue is ignored, the challenge…

In this brief paper, the author asserts that our nation would be well served if our elected officials made improving graduate education a high priority. At first glance, graduate education seems like an unlikely candidate for the legislative front burner. Surely, Americans are beset by far more critical issues, such as the war on terrorism,…

The purpose of this study was to discern which socioeconomic classes are represented in Catholic high school populations across the United States. In addition, the study sought to discover the motivations of those families whose children were currently enrolled in American Catholic high schools. Also explored were the reasons why Catholic families…