Financing a college education
Subtitle: how it works, how it's changing
By: edited by Jacqueline E. King
Contributors: King, Jacqueline E.
Series: American Council on Education/Oryx Press series on higher education
Publisher: Oryx Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Phoenix
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Student aid -- United States; College costs -- United States; Student loans -- United States; Parents -- United States -- Finance, Personal; Students -- United States -- Finance, Personal
Description: "How are students meeting the costs of attending U.S. colleges and universities? What can the government and institutions of higher education do to make college more affordable and accessible to students?" "In Financing a College Education: How It Works, How It's Changing, King brings together essays by 15 prominent policy analysts and higher education specialists that clarify these issues and describe how student aid policy and practice have changed, how student costs at U.S. colleges and universities are currently being met, and why and how enhancements to current programs would make the system more equitable."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. How financing a college education works.  How do students and families pay for college? / John B. Lee; title: College costs: who pays and why it matters so / Gordon C. Winston; title: Need analysis: how we decide who gets what / Sandy Baum; title: The student aid industry / Michael Mumper; title: The changing characteristics of undergraduate borrowers / Kenneth E. Redd; title: pt. 2. How financing a college education is changing.  The new politics of higher education / A. Clayton Spencer; title: Merit-based versus need-based aid: the continual issues for policymakers / Joseph D. Creech and Jerry Sheehan Davis; title: Student aid after tax reform: risks and opportunities / Thomas J. Kane; title: State policy response to the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 / Kristin D. Conklin and Joni E. Finney; title: Crisis or convenience: why are students borrowing more? / Jacqueline E. King; title: Financial aid is not enough: improving the odds for minority and low-income students / Lawrence E. Gladieux and Watson Scott Swail