Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2014
Publication Source
The Review of Higher Education
Abstract
For many students at urban commuter colleges, the process of financial aid is unknown or mysterious; and so they work—often many hours a week—to pay expenses that financial aid might have covered. Missteps, unforeseen events, and limited resources can have severe consequences for the academic progress of these students. The broader study, of which this paper is a part, represents an effort to explore and describe students’ college-going, working, family responsibilities, and academic success at three commuter institutions in a metropolitan region in the Midwest. The encompassing project aims to introduce new qualitative data and situated description into the study of these phenomena. In this article, we explore students’ views and experiences with financial aid, centering on the research question: How do students describe and conceptualize financial aid policy?
Inclusive pages
429-467
ISBN/ISSN
0162-5748
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2014, Association for the Study of Higher Education
Publisher
Association for the Study of Higher Education
Volume
37
Issue
4
Peer Reviewed
yes
Keywords
financial aid, disadvantaged, urban, higher education
eCommons Citation
Ziskin, Mary; Fischer, Mary Ann; Torres, Vasti; Pellicciotti, Beth; and Player-Sanders, Jacquelyn, "Working Students’ Perceptions of Paying for College: Understanding the Connections between Financial Aid and Work" (2014). Educational Leadership Faculty Publications. 1.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eda_fac_pub/1
Included in
Community College Education Administration Commons, Education Economics Commons, Higher Education Commons, Higher Education Administration Commons, Urban Education Commons
Comments
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