Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education
Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education

Author: Rebecca S. Natow

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0807766763

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a comprehensive description of the federal government's relationship with higher education and how that relationship became so expansive and indispensable over time. Drawing from constitutional law, social science research, federal policy documents, and original interviews with key policy insiders, the author explores the U.S. government's role in regulating, financing, and otherwise influencing higher education. Natow analyzes how the government's role has evolved over time, the activities of specific governmental branches and agencies that affect higher education, the nature of the government's influence today, and prospects for the future of federal involvement in higher education. Chapters examine the politics and practices that shape policies affecting nondiscrimination and civil rights, student financial aid, educational quality and student success, campus crime, research and development, intellectual property, student privacy, and more. Book Features: Provides a contemporary and thorough understanding of how federal higher education policies are created, implemented, and influenced by federal and nonfederal policy actors. Situates higher education policy within the constitutional, political, and historical contexts of the federal government. Offers nuanced perspectives informed by insider information about what occurs behind the scenes in the federal higher education policy arena. Includes case studies illustrating the profound effects federal policy processes have on the everyday lives of college students, their families, institutions, and other higher education stakeholders.

Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education
Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education

Author: Rebecca S. Natow

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0807780936

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a comprehensive description of the federal government’s relationship with higher education and how that relationship became so expansive and indispensable over time. Drawing from constitutional law, social science research, federal policy documents, and original interviews with key policy insiders, the author explores the U.S. government’s role in regulating, financing, and otherwise influencing higher education. Natow analyzes how the government’s role has evolved over time, the activities of specific governmental branches and agencies that affect higher education, the nature of the government’s role in higher education today, and prospects for the future of federal involvement in higher education. Chapters examine the politics and practices that shape policies affecting nondiscrimination and civil rights, student financial aid, educational quality and student success, campus crime, research and development, intellectual property, student privacy, and more. Book Features: Provides a contemporary and thorough understanding of how federal higher education policies are created, implemented, and influenced by federal and nonfederal policy actors. Situates higher education policy within the constitutional, political, and historical contexts of the federal government. Offers nuanced perspectives informed by insider information about what occurs “behind the scenes” in the federal higher education policy arena. Includes case studies illustrating the profound effects federal policy processes have on the everyday lives of college students, their families, institutions, and other higher education stakeholders.

Financing Postsecondary Education
Financing Postsecondary Education

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This conference proceedings provides a summary of a conference on the federal role in the financing of postsecondary education, along with nine papers commissioned for the conference. The papers include: (1) "The Federal Role in Financing Higher Education: An Economic Perspective" (Sandy Baum); (2) "Rethinking the Allocation of Pell Grants" (David W. Breneman and Fred J. Galloway); (3) "Implications of Demographic Trends in Higher Education on Student Financial Aid Over the Next Ten Years" (Mary J. Frase); (4) "Federal Student Aid Policy: A History and an Assessment" (Lawrence E. Gladieux); (5) "Cut the Cloth to Fit the Student: Tailoring the Federal Role in Postsecondary Education and Training" (Arthur M. Hauptman); (6) "Starting Points: Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Principles and Policies of Federal Financial Aid to Students" (Bruce D. Johnstone); (7) "Accountability in Postsecondary Education" (Charles E. M. Kolb); (8) "Goals for Federal/State Policy in the 21st Century: Affordability, Mobility, and Learning Productivity" (James R. Mingle); and (9) "Pursuing Broader Participation and Greater Benefit from Federal College Student Financial Aid" (Michael T. Nettles and Others). A list of conference participants is included. (MDM)

Hearing on Higher Education
Hearing on Higher Education

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This Congressional hearing report is intended to provide a broad overview of the current state of higher education and establish a foundation for future hearings on more specific topics concerned with the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Issues addressed in the report include: costs of going to college; characteristics of those who go to college; kinds of financial available; characteristics of financial aid recipients; distribution of financial aid among private versus public colleges and among dependent versus independent students; types of programs eligible for federal aid; and the role of the college financial aid officer. Included are the transcripts of the testimonies of: David A. Longanecker, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, who reviewed Title IV eligibility and certification requirements; John B. Childers, of The College Board, who reported on the Board's experiences with financing postsecondary education; Margot Schenet, of the Congressional Research Service, who gave testimony about who gets student aid and where they go to school; Michael T. Nettles, of the United Negro College Fund, who addressed enrollment trends for minority students; and Thomas M. Rutter, Director of Financial Aid at San Francisco State University, who talked about the role of the financial aid administrator. Also included is the transcript of the question-and-answer period which followed the oral testimony and the supporting documentation provided by each respondent. (CH)