November 4, 2009

Colleges Can Reap Educational Gains by Steering More Aid to the Needy, Studies Suggest

By Peter Schmidt

Vancouver, British Columbia

Receiving financial aid appears to have a significant positive impact on the educational performance of college students from low-income families, but many higher-education institutions are bending to pressure to give aid to other students who do not necessarily need it, according to research scheduled to be discussed here this week at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

One study being presented here, based on data from the

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