Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America

by Rupert Wilkinson

From the first scholarship donated to Harvard in 1643 to today's world of enrollment management and federal grants and loans, the author gives a lively social and economic history of the conflicting purposes of student aid and makes proposals for the future. His research for this book is based on archives and interviews at 131 public and private institutions across the United States.

In the words of Joe Paul Case, Dean and Director of Financial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826515029
• ISBN13: 9780826515025
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"