Does Federal Financial Aid Drive Up College Prices?

The "Bennett Hypothesis" is the theory that : The availability of federal loans -- particularly subsidized loans offering a below-market interest rate and payment of interest as long as the student is enrolled in school -- provides "cover" for colleges to raise their prices, because students can offset a price increase, or at least a portion of that increase, with federal loans.This report examines research that attempts to prove or disprove the Bennett Hypothesis, with a focus primarily on the impact of federal grants and loans on college and university tuition price increases. Section two presents a brief overview of federal student financial aid programs, recent trends in tuition prices, and the economic theory behind financial aid and tuition prices. Section three reviews some of the research that has analyzed the veracity of the Bennett Hypothesis over the years.Section three also describes studies with similar methodologies but contrary findings. The research suffers from limitations in the data used, particularly in the measures of federal aid used as predictors. There are also limitations in the data analysis methodologies employed, including the researchers' inability to fully control for all of the complex factors that go into the decisions that institutions make when determining tuition prices. More details about these issues are presented in this section. The final section summarizes what this body of research tells us about the relationship between federal student aid and tuition prices

The Need for Early College in the 21st Century

This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” details the evolution of the early college movement within the American educational system. The author then makes a case for the continued importance and success of early college models in the 50 years since Hall’s initial call for reform

Financial Aid Research: The Nexus of Academic, Practitioner, and Policy Work

Academic research often does not find its way into the policy arena because of the nature of the work. Policymakers often find journal articles and academic books too long, difficult to understand, and lacking in policy-relevant ideas and recommendations. This article provides suggestions to academic and other researchers on how to make their research policy relevant and most likely to have an impact on policy and practice

Race, Gender, and Institutional Financial Aid Awards

This paper analyzes data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) to examine the awarding of institutional need based versus non-need-based grants to undergraduate students. The purpose of the study is to determine: 1} how the use of these different types of grants has changed in recent years; 2) the socioeconomic characteristics of the students receiving them; and, 3) how institutional and student characteristics help predict who will receive an institutional grant

Institutional Need-based and Non-need Grants: Trends and Differences Among College and University Sectors

This study uses data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey to analyze the use of need-based versus non-need financial aid awarded by colleges and universities in 1989 and 1995. Descriptive and trend analyses were used to examine differences in the use of these types of aid among varying institutional types, and to examine how financial aid awards have changed for full-time undergraduate students from different income backgrounds

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, July 1960

President\u27s page • Dr. Paisley completes fifty years as President of the Board of Directors • Dr. McClure salutes Dr. Paisley • Senator Hugh Scott speaks at commencement • Horton preaches Baccalaureate sermon • Mrs. Omwake honored • 1960 Loyalty Fund • Dr. Boswell retires • Four professors given Bear Awards • Memorial minute • Faculty notes • A student reviews the past year at Ursinus • Alumni Day • Alumni elections • Thompson receives award • Admissions\u27 problems • Ursinus experiments in Swedish • Commencement Day • Colonel Campbell, \u2760 • The generous American • 1960 Loyalty Fund breaks all records • Lost alumni • The alumnus / alumna • A defense for the Alumni Association • Edward L. French, \u2738 • Paul E. Elicker, \u2714 • Warren K. Hess, \u2731 • Ursinus sends Morgan to NCAA track trials • Best track season in Ursinus history • Baseball review • Varsity Club news • Ursinus faces rebuilding job • Girls\u27 spring sports • Calling all grumblers • News about ourselves • Necrology • Weddings • Births • Ursinus captain\u27s chairhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1065/thumbnail.jp

Who Benefits From Teams? Comparing Workers, Supervisors, and Managers

This paper offers a political explanation for the diffusion and sustainability of team-based work systems by examining the differential outcomes of team structures for 1200 workers, supervisors, and middle managers in a large unionized telecommunications company. Regression analyses show that participation in self-managed teams is associated with significantly higher levels of perceived discretion, employment security, and satisfaction for workers and the opposite for supervisors. Middle managers who initiate team innovations report higher employment security, but otherwise are not significantly different from their counterparts who are not involved in innovations. By contrast, there are no significant outcomes for employees associated with their participation in offline problem-solving teams

Standalone vertex finding in the ATLAS muon spectrometer

A dedicated reconstruction algorithm to find decay vertices in the ATLAS muon spectrometer is presented. The algorithm searches the region just upstream of or inside the muon spectrometer volume for multi-particle vertices that originate from the decay of particles with long decay paths. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated using both a sample of simulated Higgs boson events, in which the Higgs boson decays to long-lived neutral particles that in turn decay to bbar b final states, and pp collision data at √s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011

Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements are presented of production properties and couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the decays into boson pairs, H →γ γ, H → Z Z∗ →4l and H →W W∗ →lνlν. The results are based on the complete pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 7 TeV and √s = 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 25 fb−1. Evidence for Higgs boson production through vector-boson fusion is reported. Results of combined fits probing Higgs boson couplings to fermions and bosons, as well as anomalous contributions to loop-induced production and decay modes, are presented. All measurements are consistent with expectations for the Standard Model Higgs boson