Crafting A Class: College Admissions And Financial Aid, 1955-1994 (The William G. Bowen Series, 77)

Admissions and financial aid policies at liberal arts colleges have changed dramatically since 1955. By tracing the development of competitive admission and financial aid policies at a selected group of liberal arts colleges, Crafting a Class explores how institutional decisions reflect and respond to broad demographic, economic, political, and social forces. Elizabeth Duffy and Idana Goldberg closely studied sixteen liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts and Ohio. At each college, they not only collected empirical data on admissions, enrollment, and financial aid trends, but they also examined archival materials and interviewed current and former administrators. Duffy and Goldberg have produced an authoritative and highly readable account of some of the most important changes that have taken place in American higher education during the tumultuous decades since the mid-1950s.

• | Author: Elizabeth A. Duffy|Idana Goldberg
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 14, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 322 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691603553
• | ISBN-13: 9780691603551