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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Gross, Jacob P. K.; Torres, Vasti – Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice, 2010
Using a competing risks event history model this study explores the effects of differentiated forms of financial aid on the postsecondary enrollment patterns of Latino college students in Indiana. Much of the prior research on financial aid has employed cross-sectional methods, which assume that the effects of aid do not vary across time. This…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Outcomes of Education, Risk, Models
McDonough, Patricia; Calderone, Shannon – Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice, 2010
In the last forty years, federal and state financial aid policy has fundamentally shifted the way in which students and families finance college costs. Whereas grants once served an important function in equalizing college opportunity, loans are now considered a key lever against escalating postsecondary costs (McPherson and Shapiro, 1998). This…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Ethnic Groups, State Aid, Paying for College