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Money Matters: Understanding How Colleges and Universities Use Their Websites to Communicate Information about How to Pay College Costs
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Perna, Laura W.; Wright-Kim, Jeremy; Jiang, Nathan – Educational Policy, 2021
This study uses web sphere analysis to examine the usability and usefulness of information that selected 4-year colleges and universities are providing about the costs of attendance via their net price calculators and cost-related websites. Using compliance with current and proposed federal requirements for net price calculators as a starting…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, Web Sites, Information Dissemination
The Closure of Institutions of Higher Education: Student Options, Borrower Relief, and Other Implications. CRS Report R44737, Version 11. Updated
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Hegji, Alexandra – Congressional Research Service, 2020
In academic year (AY) 2018-2019, approximately 6,400 institutions of higher education (IHEs), enrolling about 26.5 million postsecondary education students, participated in the federal student aid programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA; P.L. 89-329, as amended). These IHEs ranged in sector, size, and…
Descriptors: School Closing, Colleges, College Students, Loan Repayment
The Cost of College: How Texas Students and Families Are Financing College Education
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Helmcamp, Leslie – Center for Public Policy Priorities, 2012
Financial aid enables thousands of Texans with limited financial resources to pursue postsecondary education, but need-based grant aid is under attack at state and federal levels. With new restrictions on need-based aid coupled with state budget cutbacks, financial aid rationing threatens college access, persistence, and success for a young and…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Eligibility, Colleges, Federal Aid
Examining Zero Expected Family Contribution as a New Criterion for "Low Income": Comparing the Impact on Student Persistence at Two- and Four-Year Institutions
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Davidson, J. Cody – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The designation "low income" is often assigned to students who are Federal Pell Grant eligible; however, family incomes for these recipients range from $0 to as high as $60,000 (Baum & Payea, 2011). Over 93% of all zero expected family contribution (EFC) students have a family income of $30,000 or less and constituted 67.4% of all…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Grants, Federal Aid, Family Income
Facts for Education Advocates: Price of College and Financial Aid
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Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
The price of college, particularly relative to the amount of available financial aid, has been increasing and has been cited as a major barrier to college attendance and completion. And given the recent economic downturn, these issues have taken on even greater significance to students, their families, educators, employers, policymakers and…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Paying for College, Tuition, Colleges
Abuses in Federal Student Grant Programs. Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session (October 27-28, 1993).
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. – 1994
It appears that many of the problems plaguing the Federal Student Aid Programs are also undermining the Pell Grant program, not so much from dishonesty on the part of students, but by dishonesty on the part of schools. This document presents testimony and prepared statements concerning the allegations of fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Finance Reform