Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Already, Knowles made national headlines with a $9 million financial aid boost for undergraduates, made possible in part by the endowment change...
John C. Santry, staff assistant at the Office of Financial Aid, says he was surprised that students were picking classes around their expense...
...handle that sort of thing on a case by case basis," Santry says. "If a student came in and said they wanted help meeting costs for the books in a class, we'd be happy to talk about that." He added that the problem in handling books in financial aid is rooted in the wide variance between book costs per student--from...
...Personal expenses is supposed to include books, but not the entire cost of books," Santry says. "We would encourage anyone who has concerns about these expenses to come and talk to their financial aid counselor...
...given that the players in the industry--from the Coop, to publishers and authors, to professors, to even the financial aid office--are either unable or unwilling to lessen the burden of textbook prices, using technology to give students more choice over what to read may be the only way to significantly lower the bill. --Sasha A. Haines-Stiles contributed to the reporting of this article...