Removing college price barriers : what government has done and why it hasn't worked / Michael Mumper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mumper, Michael, 1954-

Series:

SUNY series, social context of education.

SUNY series, social context of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--United States--Finance.

Universities and colleges.

Federal aid to higher education--United States.

Federal aid to higher education.

Government aid to higher education--United States.

Government aid to higher education.

Physical Description:

xxi, 304 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.

Summary:

Presents the political, economic, and demographic factors that interact to produce and perpetuate increasing college price barriers. The dream of college education is one of the central aspirations of American families and the cost of college is one of their central concerns. Removing College Price Barriers explores federal and state governmental efforts to achieve universal college affordability, and explains why those efforts have failed so badly. Mumper provides a comprehensive overview of trends in college finance from 1965 to the present. He chronicles how the creation of the federal student aid programs, coupled with increasing state support of higher education, substantially lowered college price barriers during the late 1960s and 1970s. Since 1980, however, the rising costs of providing a higher education have combined with stable state support to drive tuitions rapidly upward. Simultaneously, the federal government began shifting a larger portion of student aid funds away from grants to lower income students toward loans to middle and upper income students. The result is that students are forced to finance a greater portion of their larger college costs. This analysis concludes with an evaluation of several plans to reform the college finance system including the new direct lending program, high tuition/high aid funding strategies, and expanded repayment options, including national service. Drawing from the best of each of these ideas, the book outlines a plan to make the existing programs better achieve their original purpose by targeting more aid to the most needy students. Michael Mumper is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Why College Matters

2. Understanding College Prices

3. The Changing Course of College Affordability

4. The Creation and Transformation of the Federal Student Aid Programs

5. The Costs and Consequences of The Transformation in Federal Student-Aid Policy

6. The States and College Affordability

7. Helping Families to Save for College

8. From Price to Participation: Assessing the Impact of the College- Affordability Programs

9. What Went Wrong And Why: Reviewing the Causes of Declining Affordability

10. Options to Improve College Affordability

11. A Plan to Remove College Price Barriers

Notes

Chapter 1. Why College Matters

Chapter 2. Understanding College Prices

Chapter 3. The Changing Course of College Affordability

Chapter 4. Creation of Federal Student Aid Programs

Chapter 5. Costs of Federal Student Aid Programs

Chapter 6. The States and College Affordability

Chapter 7. Helping Families to Save for College

Chapter 8. From Price to Participation

Chapter 9. What Went Wrong and Why

Chapter 11. A Plan to Remove College Price Barriers

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-1388-2

OCLC:

923397896