Don't Fix the Student-Aid System. Kill It

Autor/in	Ronstadt, Robert
Titel	Don't Fix the Student-Aid System. Kill It
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 25, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Student Financial Aid; Tuition; Audits (Verification); Finance Reform; Equal Education; Paying for College; Student Loan Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Financial reform; Finanzreform
Abstract	The American student-aid system has long been based on a tacit promise to provide students with the means to complete their college education and ensure that money is not a barrier to getting a degree. Unfortunately, says the writer, student aid has become little more than a marketing mechanism that permits colleges to maximize tuition dollars through spiraling price discrimination. Because institutions have tailored their prices to fit their own particular circumstances, financial aid has morphed into a "debt for diploma" system that fosters ever-rising tuitions, fees, and room-and-board charges, while placing many colleges and universities beyond the financial reach of qualified and promising high-school seniors. While acknowledging that a problem that has developed over decades will also take time to solve, the writer urges that a solution must be found, but that modifying the current system will not address the tuition problem. What is needed, writes Ronstadt, are new strategies that are not predicated on a system that uses financial-aid packages to maximize tuition dollars. Fundamentally sound business practice, the author advocates, would be fair, transparent, good public policy, and a sound public investment. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10