The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education

by Morton Owen Schapiro, Michael S. McPherson, Morton Schapiro

Book Overview

Student aid in higher education has recently become a hot-button issue. Parents trying to pay for their children's education, college administrators competing for students, and even President Bill Clinton, whose recently proposed tax breaks for college would change sharply the federal government's financial commitment to higher education, have staked a claim in its resolution. In The Student Aid Game , Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro explain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691057834
• ISBN13: 9780691057835
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Not what you think

This is an excellent economic study of how financial aid affects the decisions of undergraduates to attend institutions, including whether to attend or not. The Student Aid Game should be read by anyone interested in making college more accessable to those who are qualified to attend but can not afford it. Schapiro and McPherson demonstrate that increasing Federal Financial Aid greatly increases the participation of minorities and the poor. It is not, however, a book designed to help parents manuever through the paper jungle of financial aid offers and dealing with financial aid offices. Their goal is far more grand, pushing for policy changes that will increase the opportunities minorities and poor americans have to attend institutions of higher learning