Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial aid in America.0826515029 Aiding students, buying students; financial aid in America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. . Wilkinson, Rupert. Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; chartered 1872 as Central Univ. of Methodist Episcopal Church, founded and renamed 1873, opened 1875 through a gift from Cornelius Vanderbilt. Until 1914 it operated under the auspices of the Methodist Church. Pr. 2005 346 pages $39.95 Hardcover LB2337 A social and economic history of the conflicting purposes of student aid, based on archival research and interviews at 131 public and private institutions across the US. Wilkinson, a historian who has taught at the U. of Sussex Sussex, county, SE England, since 1888 divided for administrative purposes into East Sussex (1991 pop. 670,600), 693 sq mi (1,795 sq km), and West Sussex (1991 pop. 692,800), 768 sq mi (1,990 sq km). , UK, as well as at Brandeis, Smith, and Wesleyan, finds that many qualified young people are not going to college because they can't afford it and don't want to carry the burden of such a large debt. Yet the financial payoffs of a college education have risen, widening the economic gulf between college graduates and others. Wilkinson recommends a number of reforms to reverse regressive re·gres·sive adj. 1. Having a tendency to return or to revert. 2. Characterized by regression. re·gres trends in financial aid. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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