Postsecondary Education
Student Aid, Access, & Affordability

The Educational Policy Institute is an international leader in the area of student financial aid policy and postsecondary access. Dr. Swail, president of EPI, and Mr. Usher, Vice President of EPI, have extensive background and research and policy making in this area, and both have written extensively on the topic.

EPI has conducted a number of projects related to student aid and postsecondary access over recent years in the US and Canada, and also related to international issues. The work includes policy studies of tuition policies, admissions policies, and also evaluations of scholarship programs and other policy initiatives.

Related Projects:

• Evaluation of the NACME Scholars Program (2006); National Action Council on Minorities in Engineering
• Measuring the Effectiveness of Student Aid (MESA; 2006-09); Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
• Kentucky Postsecondary Education Comprehensive Affordability Analysis (2006); Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
• Changes in Tuition Policy - Natural Policy Experiments in Five Countries (2003); Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
• The Affordability of University Education (2003); Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
• California Trends in Student Aid (2006); EdFund
• Florida Trends in Student Aid (2003); Florida Council on Education Policy, Research, and Improvement (CEPRI)

Related Publications:

• Beyond the Sticker Price - A Closer Look at Canadian Tuition Fees
  (August, 2006)
• Grants for Students: What They Are, How They Work (August, 2006)
• Student Aid Time-Bomb (July, 2006)
• Beyond the 49th Parallel
  The Affordability of Public University Education (March, 2006)
• California Trends in Student Aid: 1994-95 to 2003-04 (2006, March)
• Student Support in Australia: When Will the Government Improve It?
• GLOBAL DEBT PATTERNS: An International Comparison of Student Loan Burdens and Repayment Condition (2005, September)
• Reframing the Student Loan Costing Debate (2005, July)
• No Merit in these Scholarships (2005, June)
• Much Ado About a Very Small Idea (2005, January)
• The Affordability of University Education (2004, December)
• Changes in Tuition Policy: Natural Policy Experiments in Five Countries (2004, August)
• Meeting the Need: A new Architecture for Canada's Student Financial Aid System (2004, August)
• Are the Poor Needy? Are the Needy Poor? The Distribution of Loans and Grants by Family Income Quartile in Canada (2004, May)
• Who Gets What? The Distribution of Government Subsidies for Post-Secondary Education in Canada (2004, May)
• The More Things Change: Undergraduate Student Living Standards After 40 Years of the Canada Student Loan Program (2004, March)
• Trends in Student Aid and College Pricing FLORIDA, 1997-98 to 2001-02 (2003, September)
• Student Assistance the American Way (2003, February)
• The California Dream and Its Future: Indicators of Educational and Economic Opportunity in the Golden State (2001)
• Financial Aid is Not Enough (1998)