Pell Grants do work . . . and this is coming from someone who use to manage a University campus.
Granted, but by economically favoring some people to get the grants, it drives up the price of college for the rest of us. Since government has got involved, education is more expensive comparatively.
In some select cases, yes. However, when you consider that most state schools are ran on budgets, it doesn't matter where the funding sources come from as long as all the vacant student positions are filled. Since these are federal funds, the states view it as the same color green as if it were from scholarships, financial aid, or out-of-pocket. But in other cases, education rates have been realtively slow in rising in relationship to the inflation rates of where the schools are located. In the case of the school which I managed, we traditionally rose our credit hour tuition rates by $45 each year, which was below the Northern VA cost-of-living rates. So, it was changed to 5% instead in the last two years I was working there. This brought our tuition in line with area economics. In some states, they've had to boost up their tuition rates to meet the demands of unions as well as facility upgrades. Unfortunately, tuition rates will most likely continue to rise on an annual basis, with or without Pell Grants.
