More Questions than Answers: A Review of Aiding Students, Buying Students and 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Diversity

by Mark Drozdowski I’m always eager to sink my reviewing teeth into a new book on higher education, yet somehow the prospect of digesting one on the history of financial aid didn’t initially thrill me. While important, financial aid doesn’t rank among the sexiest topics. But Rupert Wilkinson pulls it off with his new book, Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America. Though it’s not The Da Vinci Code, this volume nonetheless keeps the reader engaged and manages to teach us a few things about who receives aid, why they do, and who supports them. The history of student […]