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ERIC Number: EJ593353
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-5982
Popular Higher-Education Grant Program Survives Effort To Shift Its Priorities.
Brainard, Jeffrey
Chronicle of Higher Education, v46 n2 pA59-A60 Sep 3 1999
A small, well-regarded Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program that finances innovations in higher education has resisted a push by Congress to influence which institutions should receive grants. Its new round of awards includes only one of 11 institutions suggested by Congress. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Grants, Higher Education, Policy Formation, Political Influences, Politics of Education, Public Agencies, Public Policy, Resource Allocation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education