Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid In America
by Rupert Wilkinson /
2005 / English / PDF
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From the first scholarship donated to Harvard in 1643 to today's
world of "enrollment management" and federal grants and loans,
the author gives a lively social and economic history of the
conflicting purposes of student aid and makes proposals for the
future. His research for this book is based on archives and
interviews at 131 public and private institutions across the
United States.
From the first scholarship donated to Harvard in 1643 to today's
world of "enrollment management" and federal grants and loans,
the author gives a lively social and economic history of the
conflicting purposes of student aid and makes proposals for the
future. His research for this book is based on archives and
interviews at 131 public and private institutions across the
United States.
In the words of Joe Paul Case, Dean and Director of Financial
Aid, Amherst College, "Wilkinson has mined the archives of dozens
of institutions to create a mosaic that details the progress of
student assistance from the 17th century to the present. He gives
particular attention to the origins of need-based assistance,
from the charitable benevolence of early colleges to the
regulation-laden policies of the federal government. He gives due
consideration to institutional motive--he challenges the
egalitarian platitudes of affluent colleges and questions the
countervailing market and economic forces that may imperil
need-based aid at less competitive institutions. By drawing on
scores of personal interviews and exchanges of correspondence
with aid practitioners, Wilkinson fleshes out recent decades,
helping the reader to understand new trends in the provision of
aid."
In the words of Joe Paul Case, Dean and Director of Financial
Aid, Amherst College, "Wilkinson has mined the archives of dozens
of institutions to create a mosaic that details the progress of
student assistance from the 17th century to the present. He gives
particular attention to the origins of need-based assistance,
from the charitable benevolence of early colleges to the
regulation-laden policies of the federal government. He gives due
consideration to institutional motive--he challenges the
egalitarian platitudes of affluent colleges and questions the
countervailing market and economic forces that may imperil
need-based aid at less competitive institutions. By drawing on
scores of personal interviews and exchanges of correspondence
with aid practitioners, Wilkinson fleshes out recent decades,
helping the reader to understand new trends in the provision of
aid."