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Keeping College Affordable - by Michael S McPherson & Morton Owen Schapiro (Paperback)

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  • "As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely.
  • About the Author: Michael S. McPherson is a coirector of the Williams project on the Economics of Higher Education and author of the College Board monograph, Selective Admission and the Public Interest (1990).
  • 280 Pages
  • Education, Finance

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About the Book



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As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college...



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As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely. This book assesses the role of government subsidies for higher education--especially but not exclusively federal student aid--in keeping college affordable for Americans of all economic and social backgrounds. The authors examine the effects of student aid policies of the last twenty years. They address several vital questions, including: Has federal student aid encouraged the enrollment and broadened the educational choices of disadvantaged students? Has it made higher education institutions more secure and educationally more effective--or has it raised costs and prices as schools try to capture additional aid? Has federal student aid made the distribution of higher education's benefits, and the sharing of costs, fairer? And what are the likely trends in patterns of college affordability?

Drawing on their analysis, the authors highlight some of the principal dimensions of policy choice on which the debate has focused, as well as some that have been relatively neglected. Building upon their conclusion that student aid works, they propose reforms that would bolster the role of income-tested aid in the overall student financing picture. McPherson and Schapiro recommend a number of incremental reforms that could improve the effectiveness of existing federal aid programs and present a proposal to replace a substantial fraction of state-operating subsidies to colleges and universities with expanded federal aid.

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This book evaluates the role of federal and state legislatures in subsidizing higher education and keeping college affordable for Americans of all economic and social backgrounds.



About the Author



Michael S. McPherson is a coirector of the Williams project on the Economics of Higher Education and author of the College Board monograph, Selective Admission and the Public Interest (1990). McPherson, formerly a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at Brookings, is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Economics at Williams College and coeditor of the Journal of Economics and Philosophy. Morton Owen Schapiro is a codirector of the Williams project on the Economics of Higher Education and author of the College Board monograph, Selective Admission and the Public Interest (1990). Schapiro, professor of economics at Williams College, is the author of Filling Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of the United States (1986).
Dimensions (Overall): 9.07 Inches (H) x 6.08 Inches (W) x .77 Inches (D)
Weight: .85 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 280
Genre: Education
Sub-Genre: Finance
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Michael S McPherson & Morton Owen Schapiro
Language: English
Street Date: July 1, 1991
TCIN: 1005133473
UPC: 9780815756415
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-9116
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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