Financing Postsecondary Education:
The Federal Role

Table of Contents

1. Message From Richard W. Riley, U.S. Secretary of Education

2. Summary of the Conference

3. Background Papers
   • The Federal Role in Financing Higher Education: An Economic Perspective by Sandy Baum

   • Rethinking the Allocation of Pell Grants by David Breneman and Fred J. Galloway

   • Implications of Demographic Trends in Higher Education on Student Financial Aid Over the Next Ten Years by Mary Frase

   • Federal Student Aid Policy: A History and an Assessment by Lawrence E. Gladieux

   • Cut the Cloth to Fit the Student: Tailoring the Federal Role in Postsecondary Education and Training by Arthur M. Hauptman

   • Starting Points: Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Principles and Policies of Federal Financial Aid to Students by Bruce D. Johnstone

   • Accountability in Postsecondary Education by Charles E. M. Kolb

   • Goals for Federal/State Policy in the 21st Century: Affordability, Mobility and Learning Productivity by James R. Mingle

   • Pursuing Broader Participation and Greater Benefit from Federal College Student Financial Aid by Michael T. Nettles (with assistance of Catherine M. Millett and Laura W. Perna)

4. Participants in the National Conference

5. Thanks and Special Acknowledgments

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