Gilbert, C. K., & Heller, D. E. (2013). Access, Equity, and Community Colleges: The Truman Commission and Federal Higher Education Policy from 1947 to 2011. Journal Of Higher Education, 84(3), 417-443.
Gilbert & Heller (2013) posits that the Truman Commission and Federal Education Policy has set out policy to ensure equal access to higher education for all students regardless of income or achievement level and provided more federal funding to increase the role of community college availability to students of all economic levels. The research also indicated that there are some initiatives of the policy that have been implemented. One way that this disparity could be effectively limited would be if the federal government provided the bulk …show more content…
It was during the early 1960s and 70s when the initial use of financial aid was state driven to afford low to moderate income level students the ability to afford college. At this time the financial aid was provided as a grant and was established under the State Student Incentive Grant Program. However according to (Hossler, 2000; McPherson & Shapiro, 1991) the ultimate purpose of the state grants were more complex. These earlier grants would provide support to colleges and universities, reward service to country, provide a remedy for past injustices, and stimulate future work sources in areas of shortage (Hossler, …show more content…
Changes to policy are inevitable and changes are often undertaken to afford equal access to federally mandated programs such as scholarships and grants. However, what much of this research did not address was what happened to any unused financial aids or scholarships. The issues of potential for fraud, waste, and abuse of those finances were raised in this literature. To combat this safeguards were put in place and in some cases the funds were no longer released directly to the students but instead released to the colleges (Linsley, 1997). On a community level the same fear may exist of fraud, waste, and abuse of scholarship funds because the check is often made out directly to the student. It is up to the student to manage their scholarship money in order to complete the college degree, vocational or
Gilbert & Heller (2013) posits that the Truman Commission and Federal Education Policy has set out policy to ensure equal access to higher education for all students regardless of income or achievement level and provided more federal funding to increase the role of community college availability to students of all economic levels. The research also indicated that there are some initiatives of the policy that have been implemented. One way that this disparity could be effectively limited would be if the federal government provided the bulk …show more content…
It was during the early 1960s and 70s when the initial use of financial aid was state driven to afford low to moderate income level students the ability to afford college. At this time the financial aid was provided as a grant and was established under the State Student Incentive Grant Program. However according to (Hossler, 2000; McPherson & Shapiro, 1991) the ultimate purpose of the state grants were more complex. These earlier grants would provide support to colleges and universities, reward service to country, provide a remedy for past injustices, and stimulate future work sources in areas of shortage (Hossler, …show more content…
Changes to policy are inevitable and changes are often undertaken to afford equal access to federally mandated programs such as scholarships and grants. However, what much of this research did not address was what happened to any unused financial aids or scholarships. The issues of potential for fraud, waste, and abuse of those finances were raised in this literature. To combat this safeguards were put in place and in some cases the funds were no longer released directly to the students but instead released to the colleges (Linsley, 1997). On a community level the same fear may exist of fraud, waste, and abuse of scholarship funds because the check is often made out directly to the student. It is up to the student to manage their scholarship money in order to complete the college degree, vocational or