Submitted by Ed Policy on January 10, 2009 - 6:25pm.
I agree with Michael Dannenberg that too much federal campus-based aid goes to colleges and students that are not the neediest.
However, on this website and also in my book, AIDING STUDENTS, BUYING STUDENTS: Financial Aid in America (Vanderbilt UP), I argue that campus-based aid could be linked more imaginatively and aggressively to efforts by colleges themselves to widen access -- not just by giving money but by providing academic and other support for disadvantaged students. Leveraging in effort by college themselves might be more effective than just targeting the aid on crude categories of low-asset colleges, some of which give more of their own money to rich students than poor ones.
From Rupert Wilkinson
I agree with Michael Dannenberg that too much federal campus-based aid goes to colleges and students that are not the neediest.
However, on this website and also in my book, AIDING STUDENTS, BUYING STUDENTS: Financial Aid in America (Vanderbilt UP), I argue that campus-based aid could be linked more imaginatively and aggressively to efforts by colleges themselves to widen access -- not just by giving money but by providing academic and other support for disadvantaged students. Leveraging in effort by college themselves might be more effective than just targeting the aid on crude categories of low-asset colleges, some of which give more of their own money to rich students than poor ones.
Rupert Wilkinson