Popular Higher-Education Grant Program Survives Effort To Shift Its Priorities.

Brainard, Jeffrey

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ERIC Number: EJ593353

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Publication Date: 1999

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Popular Higher-Education Grant Program Survives Effort To Shift Its Priorities.

Brainard, Jeffrey

Chronicle of Higher Education, v46 n2 pA59-A60 Sep 3 1999

A small, well-regarded Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program that finances innovations in higher education has resisted a push by Congress to influence which institutions should receive grants. Its new round of awards includes only one of 11 institutions suggested by Congress. (MSE)

Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Grants, Higher Education, Policy Formation, Political Influences, Politics of Education, Public Agencies, Public Policy, Resource Allocation

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