Findings and Recommendations [microform] : A Review of Student Financial Aid in California
- Bib ID:
- 5495489
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Eureka Project, Sacramento, CA
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988
- 23 p.
- Summary:
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This 11th and concluding report in a series on the financing of higher education opportunities in California is an effort to bring together in one place and in summary form the main findings and conclusions of the Eureka Project, which was designed to increase among policymakers knowledge and understanding of the significant role of student financial aid in serving the public interest in California. The 20 findings include the following: major public policies for postsecondary education in California have come to depend for their implementation on the adequacy and effectiveness of the student financial aid system; financing college attendance has, in the 1980s, become much more precarious; the inadequacies of the aid system are causing shifts in the sources of higher education finance that may be affecting the educational process itself; and very few students or parents have the understanding they need of the basic features of the aid system. Nine recommendations addressing the most serious aspects of the problem include: (1) California should take a role by building on the potential of the student financial aid system and balancing policy priorities; (2) the role of loans in the student aid system should be defined as a matter of public policy; (3) California needs to stress the importance of using student financial aid to reduce the disparity between tuition and fees at public and private colleges; (4) the student aid system should provide more flexible alternatives for financing higher education; and (5) the public needs to give the student aid system the priority it deserves. An appendix provides a guide to related documents. (SM)
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- Availability: The Eureka Project, 428 J Street, Suite 400, Sacramento, CA 95814.
- Sponsoring Agency: Atlantic Richfield Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.
- Sponsoring Agency: Weingart Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.
- Sponsoring Agency: James G. Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, CA.
- Sponsoring Agency: Haynes Foundation.
- ERIC Note: For other publications in this series, see ED 286 396, ED 291 286-287, ED 295 523-524, HE 021 611-612, and HE 021 747-749.
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