In view of New Jersey's history of diffidence with regard to education in general, Governor Brendan Byrne and higher education Chancellor Ralph A. Dungan in early 1974 named a Commission on Financing Postsecondary Education. Its "free market" fiscal plan calls for reduction of institutional subsidies and increased direct student…

Data from all Ph.D. students in four fields at Cornell University, 1962-1986, showed that students with fellowships or research assistantships had higher completion rates and took less time to complete their degrees than did than those with teaching assistantships, tuition waivers, or self-support. (SK)

The Director of Research of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators examines how tuition discounting is affecting the neediest students. Results suggest that a large share of institutional aid dollars are still being distributed to low-income undergraduates, despite the rise in merit- and other non-need-based grants. (EV)

This E.D. TAB presents selected findings about the price of attendance and the types and amounts of financial aid received by in-state undergraduates enrolled in public 2-year, public 4-year, and private not-for-profit 4-year institutions during the 2003-04 academic year in 12 selected states. It is based on the undergraduate data in the 2003-04…

This paper presents a proposal for a modified school choice program that may serve as a public policy compromise to the current politicized and entrenched choice or no-choice positions. The Three Year-Three Step Performance Guarantee involves both choice and vouchers. The use of vouchers, however, is not directed at reforming schools, but at…

This paper examines arguments in favor of and against the use of educational vouchers as an alternative educational system. A review of literature concludes that some problems to be addressed include religion, ethnic equity, finance allocation, and transportation. It is argued that the free market creates competition, but not equal opportunity.…

The report, based on data from the first National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (1986), describes the combinations of student aid awards or student aid "packages" received by federally-aided students to finance their educations in 1986-87. The narrative discussion presents the results in a question-and-answer format, including such…

This presentation gives a general overview of the part-time student within the realm of the non-traditional student; provides a description of the Part-time Student Grant Program at Iowa State University; shares the results of a survey given to grant recipients; and provides recommendations for other institutions interested in similar innovative…

Although two-year institutions enroll over 25 percent of all full-time college students and over 53 percent of all first-time full-time freshmen from families with incomes of less than $10,000, they receive less than 16 percent of United States Office of Education student loan funds, and a similar percentage of Basic Educational Opportunity…

This report, which is the collaborative effort of the 23-member institutions of the consortium, proposes a financial aid structure that would provide access and a degree of choice in postsecondary education. Its overriding concern is with the structure of financial aid. The consortium recommends redirecting benefits under existing laws so that…

This document deals with the grants awarded in Pennsylvania during 1973-74. There were 149,247 applicants for grants in Pennsylvania that year, of which 106,474 were awarded grants totaling $63,639,614. The full-year average award was $662. (Of those awarded grants, 88.6 percent attended institutions of higher learning in Pennsylvania. The total…

This report provides tabular information on expenditures for teachers' salaries and retirement, school dinners and milk, colleges of education, universities, primary and secondary schools, and adult education. Statistics on awards include the number of awards granted, the names of institutions attended by students holding awards, the kinds of…

Discusses the Constitutional problems and educational benefits that surround the federal income tax credit law. (RK)

General Electric has developmental programs for its employees, and programs of cooperative education, counselor training, and tuition aid to encourage students in the community to become engineers. The progress made in establishing links between its own training and education programs and students in the community is examined. (Author/JMD)

Through its own Education and Training Center, and in cooperation with neighboring colleges, Tektronix, Inc. of Oregon, is able to offer employees two basic types of educational programs: the in-house program and the college degree program. (JMD)