The Impact of State Financial Aid on College Participation

Abstract

In 1999-2000, over 13,000 low-income high school graduates who were eligible for state based financial aid did not receive grant awards because the state of Tennessee had not appropriated sufficient funds for this need based financial aid. The primary purpose for this research was to identify and analyze the college participation decisions of those 13,000 non-recipients of state financial aid in the fall of 1999.

Keywords

• rising costs
• decrease
• financial aid
• minority students
• ucla
• federal
• state
• institute for higher education policy (ihep)
• enrollment
• tennessee