Rising Cost of College Tuition and the Effectiveness of Government Financial Aid: Hearings Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, February 9 and 10, 2000 |
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Page 304 - for the improvement of the national health, the creation of new enterprises bringing new jobs, and the betterment of the national standard of living.
Page 18 - Mr. Chairman. Chairman THOMPSON. Thank you. Senator Akaka. Senator AKAKA. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I want to commend you
Page 7 - Thank you. Senator Voinovich. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR VOINOVICH Senator VOINOVICH. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased that
Page 183 - increases in tuition at private colleges and universities. Students from lower income backgrounds qualify for need-based financial aid, lessening the chance that these students experience an affordability problem. Students from upper income backgrounds receive a different but analogous form of financial aid - parental contributions that do not require major proportions of available annual incomes. But. the story goes, when tuitions rise faster
Page 142 - merit scholarships as well as college savings and pre-paid plans oriented to middle- and upper-income families. And the colleges themselves have increasingly turned to merit-based aid and preferential packaging not necessarily based on need.
Page 168 - dollars), virtually all of the increase was in the form of loans rather than grants. The real value of state grants has followed a positive trend throughout the entire period but the absolute increase has been dwarfed by the growth in institutional grants. The real value of institutional grants has gone up by
Page 143 - we need direct outreach to more of the current generation: intervention programs that make a difference in the lives of young, disadvantaged kids early in their schooling — widening their horizons and encouraging them to stay in school, study hard, take the right courses, and keep their options open.
Page 141 - In fact, some of these students may be left worse off if they have borrowed to finance their studies - increasingly the case for low-income
Page 141 - billion in student and parent loans, five times the size of the Pell Grant program that was meant to be the system's foundation, serving students with the greatest need.
Page 316 - Ms. Hannah Sistare Staff Director and Counsel United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Washington, DC 20510-6250 Dear Ms Sistare: