Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because minority students are more likely than others to need financial aid in order to attend college, they are hit hard by the combination of decline in federal aid compounded with rising tuitions...
...What has happened is that financial aid money has not kept abreast of the full cost of college tuitions and expenses," says Sarah Melendez, associate director for the Office of Minority Concerns at the American Council on Education (ACE). Because of recessions that have put more minorities beneath the poverty line, she says, today "you have a poorer population trying to pay a higher price with fewer dollars...
Though many colleges award aid to low income students and have developed programs to offset declining minority enrollment, officials say it is precisely the students from underprivileged areas who are less likely to be aware of help available to them and shy away from higher education under the perception that it is a luxury that they can't afford...
Lucky R. Gutierrez, a senior at Stanford who works with low-income high school students as part of campus minority organization, says that "kids are terrified of the high cost, but lack knowledge" of available aid. He says many of them "feel that going to college will be an additional burden on their family, and that's enough to keep them away...
Javeline says she waitressed last summer to earn money, but because of her earnings she was placed in a different financial need bracket and thus qualified for less aid. "That decreases your motivation because it seems kind of pointless to work hard," she says...