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Promising Practice: Private Programs Guaranteeing Student Aid for Higher Education. Report to the Chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate.

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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1990

The study examined early tuition-guarantee programs for disadvantaged students to determine their characteristics, key issues, and effectiveness. The study found four different types of programs: (1) sponsorship programs in which one individual or organization provides intensive academic help, mentoring, and other services to a small, broad-based…

Descriptors: College Programs, Disadvantaged, Donors, Higher Education

A Welcomed Blessing.

Prendergast, Jill – Momentum, 1998

Describes the Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools (BLOCS), which was created in response to the increasing need for revenues in archdiocesan schools and declining enrollments due to tuition increases. Through corporate and individual support BLOCS improves educational opportunities by providing tuition assistance, capital…

Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Declining Enrollment, Donors, Elementary Secondary Education