FINANCIAL AID FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS: UNDERGRADUATE INTRODUCTION THE HE OFFICE OF EDUCATION has issued three previous compilations of scholarships and fellowships available to students in institutions of higher education in the United States. The first compilation was published in 1931, the second in 1936, and the third in 1951. The 1951 edition included 1,198 institutions which reported 124,223 scholarships worth $27,000,963; the present edition includes 1,562 institutions which report 237,370 scholarships worth $65,736,950. The number of institutions reporting and the number and value of the institutional scholarships, loans, and work opportunities available by States are shown in the table on page 2. These institutions represent 84 percent of the institutions appearing in the 1955-56 Education Directory, Part 3: Higher Education and enrolling 95 per cent of the students. The data for the individual institutions in the present bulletin were obtained by means of a questionnaire, a copy of which was sent to 1,848 institutions listed in the 1955-56 Directory. The institutions were requested to report as scholarships those grants requiring neither repayment nor service and available to students enrolled in general undergraduate curriculums and in curriculums leading to first professional degrees, e. g., dentistry, law, medicine, theology. The institutions also were requested to report financial assistance requiring repayment as loans and aid requiring service as employment opportunities. Reports were received from 1,759 institutions, 189 of which stated that they offered no financial aid. Among those which reported no Scholarships, Loans, and Institutional Employment Opportunities for Undergraduates in Institutions of Higher Education, 1955-56 Includes loans to 23,819 students in the amount of $3,315,092, which were reported as "undergraduate and graduate" by a number of institutions. scholarships, loans, or employment opportunities were publicly supported junior colleges, teachers colleges, and independent theological schools, most of which charge little or no tuition. The current compilation differs in coverage from the preceding ones in these significant respects: (1) it does not report scholarships available by subject-matter fields, except in the professional schools, in line with the current trend toward offering unrestricted grants at the undergraduate level; (2) it does not include information about graduate student aid, or fellowships, which appears in a companion publication based on material collected simultaneously; (3) it does not report State scholarship programs, details of which are available directly from State departments of education; (4) it includes information about loans, exclusive of emergency or short-term loans, and employment opportunities, which forms of aid are growing in importance as enrollments in colleges and costs of attending college increase. This report restricts itself to scholarships, loans, and employment opportunities over which the institution exercises some type of control, either by determining the recipient of the awards or by accounting for the funds in the institution's financial records. The bulletin does not attempt to include scholarships, loans, and employment opportunities offered directly to students by agencies other than the institutions. A selected list of compilations of financial aids from institutions and miscellaneous sources follows: S. NORMAN FEINGOLD. Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans. Cambridge, Mass.: Bellman Publishing Co., Inc., 1949; Vol. II, 1951; Vol. III, 1955. CHARLES E. QUATTLEBAUM. Federal Aid to Students for Higher Education. A Report Prepared in the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress. Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1956. WILMER SHIELDS RICH. American Foundations and Their Fields, Seventh Edition. New York: American Foundations Information Service, 1955. Study Abroad: International Handbook, Fellowships, Scholarships, Educational Exchange, VIII, 1956–57. Paris, France: UNESCO, 1956 (available in the United States through the UNESCO Publications Center, 152 W. 42nd St., New York 36, N. Y.). Other compilations usually of more limited coverage are issued by civic, social, and fraternal organizations, colleges and universities, denominational groups, foundations, professional associations, publishers, particularly those specializing in guidance publications, and State departments of education. Special announcements of aid programs sponsored by corporations, institutions, and religious and other groups, are made through such media as representatives of the 52087 O 60- -27 sponsoring agency, bulletin boards, newspapers, professional and other journals, radio, and television. The alert student requiring financial assistance to attend college will explore several sources with a view to discovering the financial aid program or combination of programs for which he can qualify and through which his college program may be financed. No compilation which covers so wide an area as this one can give in detail the various requirements to be met in qualifying for a specific grant, loan, or job on an institutional campus. The student is advised to consult the college catalog or to make direct inquiry of the institution of his choice regarding the requirements to be met to qualify for the kind and amount of aid he needs. In view of the current trend toward including financial need as a qualifying factor, the student or his parents should be prepared to supply evidence that need exists, NARRATIVE SUMMARIES OF SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS, AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 1955-56, BY STATES Institutional summaries are listed alphabetically within each State and Territory. The arrangement for each summary follows the outline indicated below, insofar as the items apply to the provisions of institutional programs of financial aid. Name and location of institution Control (public, private, or denominational) Composition of student body (men, women, coeducational, or Highest level of work offered (2-year, degree-granting, graduate) Scholarships Number and average value to entering freshmen Total number, average value and approximate range Loans Number and average value; availability to freshmen Annual and 2- or 4-year maximum Rate of interest before and after leaving institution Employment Number of teaching and research assistants and average compensation |