Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When there is a short-fall of money at the institutional level, you tend to make offers to those who can manage with less" aid, she says...
...federal aid has shifted from grants to loans over the past decade, there has been concern over the burden of debt that students are taking on in order to put themselves through college. Many officials say they think that large debts influence a student's choice of major and career as they think ahead to the loans they must pay back after graduation...
Kirschner says that increasing loans and decreasing grants to low-income students "is like taking federal financial aid away from them" because they fear taking on debts and because it "is more difficult for them to pay back after graduation...
...reasons for increasing tuitions and decreasing financial aid may be sound, but as Columbia senior Winston A. Willis says, "obviously the educational system will continue, but it won't be as diverse. It will suffer without input from Black and minority minds...
...blues was successfully marketed to white audiences without the aid of Belushi-esque theatrics. But in addition to capitalizing on its initial novelty as roots rock n' roll, it was flying on wings of social activism and psychedelic drugs. Liberal white people could listen to the blues and feel they were understanding Black culture, even after the centers of Black music had moved to Soul and Motown...