NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations1
Showing 61 to 75 of 672 results Save | Export
Mishory, Jen; Walsh, Anthony; Granville, Peter – Century Foundation, 2020
About 19 million people submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) each year, making it one of the most commonly experienced federal administrative processes. The widespread reliance on the complicated form and underlying calculation of financial need have spurred efforts to simplify and improve the application process and…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Low Income Students, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
Sallie Mae Bank, 2020
For the past 13 years, Sallie Mae's "How America Pays for College" study has surveyed American college students and parents of undergraduate students about their attitudes toward college and how they paid for it. The research examines families' attitudes toward the value of a college education, their key considerations about what school…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Undergraduate Students, Parents, Student Financial Aid
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kelly, Emily; Archer, Casey – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
This Data Point is based on data from four iterations of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), a large, nationally representative sample survey of students that focuses on how they finance their postsecondary education. This Data Point includes data on the percentage of total price of attendance covered by Pell Grants and the…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Federal Aid, Grants, Educational Finance
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kelly, Emily; Archer, Casey – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
This Data Point is based on data from four iterations of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), a large, nationally representative sample survey of students that focuses on how they finance their postsecondary education. This Data Point includes data on the percentage of total price of attendance covered by Pell Grants and the…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Federal Aid, Grants, Educational Finance
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Guzman-Alvarez, Alberto; Page, Lindsay C. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
Verification is a federally mandated process that requires selected students to further attest that the information reported on their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is accurate and complete. In this brief, we estimate institutional costs of administrating the FAFSA verification mandate and consider variation in costs by…
Descriptors: College Students, Financial Aid Applicants, Student Financial Aid, Paying for College
Gumb, Lindsey – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
In the following Q&A, NEBHE's Fellow for Open Education Lindsey Gumb asks Thomas College Provost Thomas Edwards about the Waterville, Maine, college's plans to use a new grant from the Davis Education Foundation. The college's focus on melding access and affordability through OER (Open Educational Resources) is especially relevant in the…
Descriptors: Student Costs, Paying for College, Textbooks, Open Educational Resources
Bitar, Jinann; McCann, Clare – New America, 2020
Efforts are underway by the Senate education committee to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. Lawmakers are focused on establishing a state-federal partnership program to increase investments in higher education, providing more information to students and their families so they can make informed choices about where to go to college, and…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Aid, Program Length, Program Costs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Paterson, Jim – Journal of College Admission, 2021
In both the stacks of research compiled by education think tanks and in the conversations had around the dining room table by families of aspiring college students, one stumbling block to college enrollment predictably crops up--financial aid. The topics range from avoiding endless, crushing debt to options for part-time jobs. But often the focus…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Paying for College, Knowledge Level
Walizer, Lauren – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2018
When state budgets are tight, Pell Grants can indirectly give states more financial flexibility to support the success of innovative state and local ideas. Conversely, cuts to Pell, or the failure to maintain current provisions such as tying the value of it to inflation, can have lasting negative impacts on the success of state postsecondary…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Educational Finance, Retrenchment
Kelchen, Robert – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2017
The rising price of attending college has made college affordability an increasingly important policy issue in recent years. In order to make college more affordable for students and their families, states can pursue three possible options. The first option is to provide additional state appropriations to colleges, which allows institutions to…
Descriptors: Tuition, Paying for College, State Aid, Grants
Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2020
Financial aid has helped millions of students pay for their education beyond high school. This document provides information about federal and Minnesota financial aid programs, including the following sections: (1) How do I apply for financial aid?; (2) Five basic steps to apply for financial aid; (3) What types of financial aid are available?;…
Descriptors: College Students, College Applicants, Financial Aid Applicants, Student Financial Aid
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bennett, Christopher; Evans, Brent; Marsicano, Christopher – Research in Higher Education, 2021
In recent decades, several dozen colleges and universities have instituted loan-reduction initiatives (LRIs), such as "no-loan" programs. Institutions frequently cast such initiatives as efforts to increase socioeconomic diversity on campus. Using a difference-in-differences analytic strategy with national institution-level data, we…
Descriptors: Loan Repayment, Federal Aid, Grants, Student Loan Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rosinger, Kelly Ochs; Belasco, Andrew S.; Hearn, James C. – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
In response to goals of expanding access as well as public pressure to leverage substantial endowment resources toward increasing affordability, numerous elite colleges have enacted policies aimed at improving access and affordability by replacing student loans with grants in financial aid packages. No-loan policies, however, differ in the extent…
Descriptors: Middle Class, College Students, Private Colleges, Student Financial Aid
Zheng, Yan; Kang, Wendy – State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2022
The Appropriation Act directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to submit an annual report to the Governor and the chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees documenting the annual change in total charges for tuition and fees approved by the boards of visitors at Virginia public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, In State Students, Tuition
Institute for College Access & Success, 2023
The Cal State Student Association (CSSA) and The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) examine trends in college affordability for California State University (CSU) bachelor's degree recipients compared to its original analysis published six years ago. This new report finds that in 2021-2022, nearly two in three CSU bachelor's degree…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Costs, Bachelors Degrees, Paying for College
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  45