Date of Award
4-2010
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Patrick Donnay
Abstract
The recent push for more Americans to attend postsecondary institutions has led to the development of numerous and far-reaching government student financial aid programs. These programs have aimed at supplying the whole of the population with financial assistance regardless of color, gender, or age. However, the distribution of the aid has encountered many problems as critics argue that the recipients of the aid are primarily limited to a narrow subgroup of the population. A new program created under the Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005 called the Academic Competitiveness Grant is no exception. Preliminary logit analysis of the reception rates of the ACG demonstrates the continuing importance of race, gender, and other demographic characteristics within this form of federal aid. I have acquired data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey utilizing the undergraduate data from 2008.
Recommended Citation
Klein, Kelsea, "Creating a Comprehensive Profile of the Academic Competitiveness Grant" (2010). Political Science Theses and Capstones. 73.
https://pines.bemidjistate.edu/capstone-polisci/73
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