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Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America
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by: Rupert Wilkinson
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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 assistance, from the charitable benevolence of early colleges to the regulation-laden policies of the federal government. He gives due consideration to institutional motive-he challenges the egalitarian platitudes of affluent colleges and questions the countervailing market and economic forces that may imperil need-based aid at less competitive institutions. By drawing on scores of personal interviews and exchanges of correspondence with aid practitioners, Wilkinson fleshes out recent decades, helping the reader to understand new trends in the provision of aid."
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Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America
- Hardcover: 336 pages (2008-01-05)
- Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press; 2005-10-28
- Label: Vanderbilt University Press
- Studio: Vanderbilt University Press
- ISBN: 0826515029
- Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #245746
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Summary: Clarifying mud 2005-12-08
Comment: Providing financial assistance to students has always been a complicated matter for academic institutions, and the complications have grown increasingly impenetrable, partly because of the mixture of motives that lie behind the provision of such assistance. Rupert Wilkinson has carefully examined a wealth of historical information on this topic, and he has achieved an admirable understanding of what lies behind that information. Possessed of a graceful and lucid writing style, he has elucidated his subject splendidly. Oberlin College is one of the institutions that he has studied, and as a retired member of its faculty I can attest that his treatment has been thorough, fair, and illuminating.
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Summary: A 'must read' for anyone with an interest in education 2005-11-16
Comment: Aiding Students, Buying Students charts the history of American student aid. Rupert Wilkinson provides an intriguing account of the progress of assistance over the past 300 years and the underlying factors behind its provision. Beyond the historical perspective it goes on to provide an insightful review of today's systems and proposals for reform. This book is written with authority and wit and unwinds a story that anyone with a professional interest in education will find both fascinating and thought provoking. Also, don't miss the pictures, a brilliant gallery from the 17C to modern times, with informative captions, sometimes funny, sometimes moving.
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Summary: Aiding Students, Buying Students by Rupert Wilkinson 2005-11-12
Comment: America faces growing economic and social inequities--a problem that threatens the roots of our democracy. I was delighted to find that Wilkinson focuses on the the impact of financial aid on actual educational opportunities faced by students from low-income and middle-income families. I was also glad that he got beyond the erroneous conventional wisdom of addressing this problem solely in terms of ethnic minorities, and that he ends this historical study with a review of the current situation and proposals for reform.
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Summary: The ideal observer 2005-11-03
Comment: If we were to invent the ideal author for writing the history of American student aid, we might specify a person who knows the college scene very closely but has a distance on it, who has long nurtured a concern with the way elites are educated, and who writes with grace and vigor. Rupert Wilkinson began his career with a brilliant comparative study of how English elite schools such as Eton and Winchester prepared young men for leading roles in what was then an empire. He writes like an angel. As a professor of American studies at Sussex, Wilkinson had the opportunity to travel repeatedly to colleges in the U.S. to monitor his institution's exchange programs and as he went, to mine the archives on students aid and conduct searching interviews with officials. Aiding Students, Buying Students lays out a history engaging in itself and with obvious relevance to today's challenges in student aid.
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