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...recent article on "The Concentration of Scholarship Funds and Its Implications for Education," John L. Holland, Research Director of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, claimed that the concentrated wealth and "narrow talent-searching" of the fifty most wealthy American universities has stifled student creativity and the quality of other institutions. The article raises questions that demand consideration: scholarship funds are scarce at most schools and methods of awarding them often favor those in high economic groups and with good grades. But the article contributes little to evaluating or solving these problems because of its imprecise arguments and its belligerent assignment...
...Holland argues three points: first, the fifty universities that control half of the nation's scholarship funds are depriving less wealthy institutions of student and faculty talent and of eminent graduates, an important means of building prestige. Geographic representation, he claims, results in an "intellectual denuding of many areas" and, in the end, "less prestigious institutions decline, or at best hold their...
Attracting endowment and talent is difficult for a little-known school with constantly rising costs. But Holland treats this problem more as a conspiracy than as an obvious, though distinctly unfortunate, fact. The very small, new or specialized institutions would naturally not have the endowment of others; and, in effect, most have scholarships for all in the form of low tuition...
Able and needy students, so the story goes, are the sole beneficiaries of the nation's $100 million annual college scholarship kitty. Last week this legend got a hard bounce from John L. Holland, research "director of the National Merit Scholarship Corp., biggest dispenser of private scholarship money in the land. In College and University, Holland argues that too much money is going to conformists with little creative talent and often enough money already...
...Holland and his associate, Laura Kent, say that one-third of all college scholarship money is controlled by 50 prestige colleges, which attract the nation's wealthiest students. Their "need" was made clear in a 1957 report that only 18% of Harvard's scholarship holders came from families with incomes below $4,000. Worse, such colleges' "reliance on test scores and high school grades has led to a relatively narrow kind of talent-searching-the search for good grade-getters." And grade-giving usually favors the conformist, says Holland, not the independent creator, who may have...