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Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America
Rupert Wilkinson
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Description for Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America
Hardcover. From the first scholarship given 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. His research for this book is based on archives and interviews at 131 public and private institutions across the US. Num Pages: 336 pages, 13 b&w illustrations, index, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKG; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 689.
From the first scholarship given 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. 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, ""Wilkinson has mined the archives of dozens of institutions to create a mosaic that details the progress of student assistance from the 17th century to the present. He gives particular attention to the origins of need-based ... Read more
From the first scholarship given 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. 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, ""Wilkinson has mined the archives of dozens of institutions to create a mosaic that details the progress of student assistance from the 17th century to the present. He gives particular attention to the origins of need-based ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515025
SKU
V9780826515025
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About Rupert Wilkinson
Rupert Wilkinson, former Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Sussex, England, has taught at Brandeis, Smith, and Wesleyan. Author or editor of eight other books on elites and on American culture, he has published articles on student aid in the College Board Review and the Journal of Student Financial Aid.
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