Covering all forms of financial assistance to students—gifts, loans, and work—this first comprehensive book on the subject takes a hard look at what is going on in American colleges and universities.
The twenty-eight original essays, written for the volume, are especially timely for two reasons: first, institutions of higher education, both public and private, have a heightened interest in institutional financial support from all sources, including that available from student tuition (and thus indirectly from student financial-aid sources); and second, state and federal agencies, especially Congress, are reviewing and revising the aid programs which they sponsor (a matter of grave concern to institutions which depend on such funds for a substantial portion of their incomes).
Divided into five parts, the work covers the philosophy and history of financial aid to students in American universities and colleges, the various programs currently in force, the organization and administration of student financial assistance, professional careers open to advisors, counselors, and administrators, and an overview summing up the ideas and recommendations of the distinguished professionals who have contributed to the volume.
Though addressed primarily to administrators and to students of higher education, the book should be read by policy-makers—by college and university presidents and deans, by trustees, and by state and federal legislators.
