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Download full textDortch, Cassandria – Congressional Research Service, 2018
The Federal Pell Grant program, authorized by Title IV-A-1 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, (HEA; P.L. 89-329), as amended, is the single largest source of federal grant aid supporting undergraduate students. The program provided approximately $29 billion in aid to approximately 7.2 million undergraduate students in FY2017. Pell Grants are…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid
Direct linkDynarski, Susan; Scott-Clayton, Judith – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013
In the nearly fifty years since the adoption of the Higher Education Act of 1965, financial aid programs have grown in scale, expanded in scope, and multiplied in form. As a result, financial aid has become the norm among college enrollees. The increasing size and complexity of the nation's student aid system has generated questions about…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Paying for College, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedCarter-Williams, Mary – Urban League Review, 1988
Traces the evolution of student financial aid for higher education and the implications for Black students and Black colleges. Concludes that retrenchment in federal aid has contributed to the decline in the number of Blacks in higher education and to the inability of Black colleges to provide educational access and quality. (FMW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Students
