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financial aid available for college students,
after two decades of rapid growth, has dropped
by $2 billion in the past two years, the
College Board said Sunday.
The decline from a peak of $18 billion in
1981-82 is even greater if inflation is taken into
account, according to "Trends in Student
Aid: 1963 to 1983," a study prepared by the
board's Washington office.
Allowing for inflation, the real value of
student aid has dropped 21 percent in the
1980s, said the study funded by the Ford
Foundation.
THE REPORT traced most of that decline
to the 1981 decision by the Reagan administration
and Congress to phase out
Social Security benefits for college students,
to restrictions on eligibility for Guaranteed
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But that diminution comes after a period
in which "the federal government became by
far the largest contributor to student aid.
Almost 80 percent of total assistance now
comes through federal programs; less than 40
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By College Press Service
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Women
students often get less financial aid than
men, even though they tend to need more aid
money than their male counterparts, according
to a new U.S. Department of Education
study.
For the 1981-82 school year, women
students got only 72 cents in grant money for
every $1 awarded to men, vet women earned
only 68 cents for every dollar earned by men
students, the report shows.
And despite lower aid awards to women
students, nearly twice as many women are
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percent of aid in the early 1960s
in origin," the study said.
The amount of aid from federal, state and
institutional sources surged from $546
million in 1963-64 to $4.5 billion in 1970-71,
to $10.5 billion in 1975-76 and to more than
18 billion in 1981-82. It dropped to an
estimated $16.1 billion in the current
academic year.
Even after adjusting for inflation, the
growth in student aid has been dramatic. In
terms of what the dollar was worth in 1982,
there was $1.7 billion in aid available in
1963-64, $10.9 billion by 1970-71 and $18.2
billion by 1975-76, the study said.
THE VALUE of student aid dipped for
several years until Congress passed the Middle
Income Student Assistance Act in 1978,
then "fell off again at the beginning of the
1980s," it said.
Veterans' benefits began to decline in the
mid-1970s as Vietnam-era veterans began to
exhaust their eligibility.
Congress established the Basic Educational
Opportunity Grants in 1972 to provide
outright grants based on need.
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classified as "independent" on their student
aid evaluations.
"There always has been an inequity in the
financial aid awards to men and women,"
said Mary Moran, the consultant to the
Education Department who authored the
study.
"Some of it could be discrimination, and
some of it is due to aspects of the student aid
formula used in calculating award
amounts," she said.
Schools need to channel more of their
campus-based aid money to part-time, nontraditional
students, she said.
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