Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority enrollment has declined, administrators say, many colleges have stepped up minority recruiting and offered their own financial aid packages. But they have not reached as many students as they would like...
...Money is money, and when it's gone, it's gone," says Richard G. Jaeger, Dartmouth's director of admissions. He says his school is not able to give out all of the aid it would like to, and, like many other colleges, has had to resort to financial aid waiting lists, though it continues to a have a need-blind admissions policy...
Representatives of many colleges, especially small private institutions with relatively small financial resources, say they fear their schools will have increasing difficulties meeting the gap between rising tuitions and decreasing federal aid...
...survey of financial aid administrators at 25 highly competitive colleges, the American Association of University Students noted a "trend that decreasing federal aid was causing an increase in college aid, coming to a point where the colleges were going to max-out," according to Executive Director James J. Plum...
Some officials predict that private colleges may see a substantial drop in minority and low-income enrollment if they are forced to decrease their aid. "We don't have enough money to go around," says Barbara J. Williams, associate director of financial aid at Howard University, a historically black college...