In assessing the impact that the increases in income and tuition charges have had on the share of the market captured by privately controlled institutions, results suggest that the rise in family income favors private enrollment but the rise in the private to public tuition ratio swamped the income effect. (Author/BP)

The subsidy available to undergraduate students is examined, with attention to the total amount of money available from all sources to students attending college (but excluding the individual and family contribution). The analysis identifies what resources are available directly to students and how many dollars are available as a subsidy through…

IN FEW INSTANCES IS PRICE A DECIDING FACTOR IN A STUDENT'S DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT TO GO TO COLLEGE. IT LOOMS LARGEST TO THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE WEAKLY MOTIVATED, TO THOSE WHO ARE ACADEMIC RISKS, AND TO THOSE WHOSE RESOURCES ARE QUITE LIMITED. COST IS A RELATIVELY MINOR CONSIDERATION IN PREVENTING BRIGHT YOUNGSTERS FROM ATTENDING COLLEGE. ONCE…

Various efforts of the University of California at San Diego to systematize and develop useful evaluation formulas for verifying income through use of Federal Income Tax Returns are reviewed. It is recommended that 100 percent collection and analysis of tax returns by the national scholarship services would maximize economy and confidentiality.…

A Michigan Competitive Scholarship and Tuition Grant Program survey of 1973-74 participants who also reported receiving Social Security Educational Benefits (SSEB) shows that reported educational utilization of SSEB is significantly higher than that expected by program assessment procedures. Implications for needs analysis theory and practice are…

Families need assistance in planning for the costs of higher education. Some suggestions are offered, including question the premise that parents will finance one year's education out of one year's income; create a national college savings plan, etc. (MLW)

A national survey of Hispanic financial aid recipients is reported, including student self-reports of income (theirs or their parents') and verified income figures. Findings indicate that students do not know very well how much they or their families earn, and that over half the students overestimated actual income. (Author/MLW)

This report focuses on educational attainment and earnings among women in Michigan. Michigan ranked 36th in the nation in 2000 for the proportion of its female population with a four-year college degree or more. Women in Michigan have lower levels of education than do men in the state. In 2000, 23.5 percent of men and 20.2 percent of women had…

Women have made remarkable strides in education during the past three decades, but these gains have yet to translate into full equity in pay. Women still earn less than men earn in nearly every profession and at every stage of their careers, and this earnings gap is evident in every state in the nation. This report focuses on educational…

This paper examines changes in the distribution of family income over 30 years, estimating the effect of parental resources on college education, and noting the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than the 1970s, while the opposite was true for families in the top quartile. Data came from three…

A Sound strategy for federal aid to higher education would be based on direct student aid rather than institutional aid." (Author)

Comments upon the 1978 Current Population Survey in relation to the education of Hispanics. Presents two data tables: (1) 1977 family income by type of Spanish origin, and (2) percent of the population 25 years and over by years of school completed, type of Spanish origin, and age. (GC)

Faced by growing inequality in American society and the stratifying aspects of early education, elite private colleges and universities that do not make a deliberate effort to open their educational experience to different kinds of individuals are disproportionately likely to enroll children from financially and academically privileged families.…

Chinese Americans' high levels of educational achievement have earned them attention as a "model minority" to be emulated by underachieving and underrepresented minority groups. However, the model minority analogy does not adequately explain how this achievement is realized, nor how such information can be used to help other groups close the…

The message that college matters is getting through to more and more young people. Young people understand that a middle-class lifestyle increasingly requires at least an associate degree. Yet the percentage of college students actually completing a two- or four-year degree has not increased significantly in more than 30 years. College completion…