Hard Heads and Soft Hearts: Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Institutional Student Aid Policy

Autor/in	Baum, Sandy
Titel	Hard Heads and Soft Hearts: Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Institutional Student Aid Policy
Quelle	In: New Directions for Higher Education, (2007) 140, S.75-85 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-0560
DOI	10.1002/he.282
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Financial Needs; Enrollment Management; Educational Opportunities; Student Financial Aid; Financial Policy; Finance Reform; Paying for College; Admission Criteria; Access to Education; Institutional Mission; Operations Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Fiscal policy; Finanzpolitik; Financial reform; Finanzreform; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang
Abstract	Historically, the primary role of financial aid was to increase educational opportunities for those with inadequate resources, yet more recently institutional aid is increasingly becoming based on criteria unrelated to financial need. Various political forces have reinforced the institutional tendency to redirect dollars from the mission of improving access to higher education to the goal of outpacing the competition in the race to recruit the best, the brightest, and the most likely to contribute to the capital campaign. This article addresses the tension between the goals of equity and enrollment management. It examines the impact of the changing focus of student aid policy on students, both those who may be locked out of educational opportunities and those who enroll in institutions that cannot or do not offer them the funding necessary to make degree attainment truly financially feasible. It also explores whether the strategic use of financial aid for enrollment management purposes can be compatible with the goals of equity in higher education, or whether we must choose between abandoning the goal of diversity and educational opportunity and risking institutional insolvency. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10