Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children’s education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government’s financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In The Student Aid Game, Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro explain how both colle… More >>
#1 by Anonymous on July 1, 2010 - 8:10 pm
This is an excellent economic study of how financial aid affects the decisions of undergraduates to attend institutions, including whether to attend or not. The Student Aid Game should be read by anyone interested in making college more accessable to those who are qualified to attend but can not afford it. Schapiro and McPherson demonstrate that increasing Federal Financial Aid greatly increases the participation of minorities and the poor. It is not, however, a book designed to help parents manuever through the paper jungle of financial aid offers and dealing with financial aid offices. Their goal is far more grand, pushing for policy changes that will increase the opportunities minorities and poor americans have to attend institutions of higher learning
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Art Maurer on July 1, 2010 - 10:39 pm
A scholarly statistical work on the trends of how student aid is being disbursed in the United States. Good analysis of the what is driving student aid offices; how they are in transition and sometimes have conflicting objectives. Little help to parents/students trying to weave through the financial aid maze. The reader can assume why dealing with financial aid offices can be so difficult; but the stage is set to provide more specifics which are not included.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Art Maurer on July 2, 2010 - 1:26 am
Good statistical presentation of the motivation of colleges/universities in provided financial aid over the past few decades and how it is changing. Little to help parents to how to deal with a financial aid office.
Rating: 3 / 5