March 25, 2008

Recipients of College Aid 'Give Back' Later, New Study Suggests

By Peter Schmidt

New York

Giving students generous financial-aid packages appears to increase their level of civic engagement after college, according to research findings being presented here this week at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association.

A study by Shouping Hu, an associate professor of higher education at Florida State University, examined the results of surveys administered to about 3,300 minority students during and after college. Nearly a third of the students