Describes how students' financing choices, together with institutional policies and practices in student advising, can impede or facilitate persistence and degree attainment among nontraditional students. (EV)

A discussion of the two systems of need analysis used for Pell grants and other large federal need-based student-aid programs looks at the reasons for different systems and examines the usefulness of simplification to one. Budgetary feasibility, distributional implications, alternative cost-saving reforms, and effects on public confidence are…

In response to Fischer (HE 527 626), the author considers a proposal to simplify need analysis in Pell grants and other federal need-based student aid as a good start toward getting policymakers to achieve more consistent assessments of student financial need, but more work by many parties to create a system producing more realistic need…

The use of a student loan secondary market by a lender under the federally guaranteed Stafford Student Loan Program can be a shock to a student unfamiliar with the role secondary markets play. The first student loan secondary market (Student Loan Marketing Association, or Sallie Mae) was created in 1973. (MLW)

The issue of sex equity in college athletics was brought to a head in 1987 in a decision by Washington state's Supreme Court in a case brought against Washington State University by former female athletes and coaches. To add two women's programs, the university asked the Legislature for additional money. (MLW)

A study of parent contributions to dependent student's college costs in 1983 and 1987 found that contributions have increased significantly in general and for the $40,000-50,000 income group in particular. (Author/MSE)

Clare Boothe Luce left a special trust whose sole purpose is to "encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach" science. Fourteen institutions were designated by her to use money to support the advancement of female students and faculty members in science and engineering. (MLW)

Since 1980 a growing share of student aid costs has passed from government to institutions. The shift is directly tied to changes in the eligibility guidelines governing federal aid programs, and is severely affecting families' efforts to plan for college costs and institutions' ability to make important infrastructure expenditures. (MSE)

Some ways in which research on student financial aid can be conducted and used to further institutional goals and objectives are presented. Four topics for inclusion in an institution's research agenda are suggested: recruiting, measuring the aid program's effectiveness, expanding aid resources, and analyzing family financial capacity. (Author/MSE)

Reviews the history and impact of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 which allowed young veterans to go to college and flooded American college campuses with new students and their families. (LZ)

The Supreme Court will not consider an appeal of a lower-court ruling invalidating a black-only scholarship program at the University of Maryland at College Park. Reaction among colleges and universities is mixed; many are seeking ways for scholarship programs to favor minorities without excluding whites. (MSE)

Despite the necessity of lifelong recurrent learning, most financial aid is directed to younger students. One way to improve equity and flexibility is funding based on credits, increasing student choice, and enabling learners to influence the character and quality of the education provided. (SK)

Loyola College (Maryland) typifies the struggle at many Catholic colleges and universities to embrace the Catholic heritage while reaching out for a racially diverse and Catholic student population. Despite enhanced recruitment and student aid for minority applicants, institutional image may be a hindrance. (Author/MSE)

A study of the financial aid applications of 2,979 parents of college students and of 136 independent students filing both actual and estimated income data on the applications found that contrary to Department of Education assumptions, procedures for income verification established by individual colleges produce effective and efficient results.…

The expected 7.7 percent increase in state student financial aid has been revised down because of midyear state budget reductions, to possibly the lowest rate in 23 years. Few states will make big increases. About 52 percent of all need-based aid will go to private college students. Dollar amounts of aid in each state for 1991-92 are charted. (MSE)