A Sharper Focus on What Students Pay, and Whether They Graduate

Autor/in	Lipka, Sara
Titel	A Sharper Focus on What Students Pay, and Whether They Graduate
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Student Costs; College Students; Student Financial Aid; Student Loan Programs; Grants; Debt (Financial); Graduation Rate; Colleges; Community Colleges; Disproportionate Representation; Employment; Majors (Students) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienkosten; Collegestudent; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Grant; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Community college; Community College; Dienstverhältnis
Abstract	Efforts to keep higher education affordable for all students and to promote not only access, but success--all in a climate of dwindling state appropriations and lean budgets--made the past year one of reckoning for colleges. Total outstanding student-loan debt hit the $1-trillion mark as federal officials scrambled to ease the burden on borrowers, partly by requiring colleges to disclose more about students' cost of attendance and financial-aid awards. A campaign-season debate arose in Congress over a scheduled interest-rate increase on some student loans. And the national college-completion agenda prompted both attention to underrepresented students and scrutiny of graduation rates. Seeing students through to graduation remained a challenge for colleges. The author reports on how the national goals to increase the number of graduates bring attention to how colleges can better help students succeed. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10