More on Student Financial Aid

• May 13, 2013

  ACE Paper Argues There Is Scant Evidence Proving Federal Aid Drives Up College Prices

  In a new monograph written for ACE, Donald E. Heller argues there is scant evidence of a relationship between changes in federal student aid and tuition increases.

• Eye on Washington: Can We Afford the Pell Grant Program?

  Terry W. Hartle discusses Congressional support of Pell Grant awards as the cost of this vital and venerable program rapidly increases.

• Myth: Increases in Federal Student Aid Drive Increases in Tuition

  Concerns about college affordability have yet again given rise to the oft-stated but empirically unsupported claim that increases in federal student aid are a primary driver of increases in college tuition.