Crisis Point: How Enrollment Management and the Merit-Aid Arms Race Are Derailing Public Higher Education

Autor/in	Burd, Stephen
Institution	New America
Titel	Crisis Point: How Enrollment Management and the Merit-Aid Arms Race Are Derailing Public Higher Education
Quelle	(2020), (52 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Enrollment Management; Public Colleges; Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid); Expenditures; Privatization; Low Income Students; Working Class; Economic Climate; Financial Needs; Merit Scholarships + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demand analysis; Bedarfsanalyse; Ausgaben; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Arbeiterklasse; Wirtschaftslage; Leistungsvergütung
Abstract	This report analyzes data from 2001-2017 to examine public four-year universities' spending on financial aid dollars--specifically between non-need-based and need-based aid. Our researcher found that these universities have spent nearly $32 billion of their own financial aid dollars on students who lack financial need, according to an analysis New America conducted prior. About $2 out of every $5 these public universities provided went to non-needy students--those whom the federal government deems able to afford college without financial aid. For generations, public colleges and universities, with the help of the federal government and states, provided a low-cost higher education to students in their home states. By keeping their prices low, these schools offered students from low-income and moderate-income families a gateway to the middle class. The more public universities engage in these practices, the harder it gets for others to resist for fear of putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage. As a result, schools that provide generous amounts of non-need-based aid cannot rest easy. They have to keep ratcheting up their scholarships or discounts to try to stay ahead of their competition, creating an ever-expanding arms race. Our analysis shows this "merit-aid" arms race at work. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01