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Of Time and the Feds: The Federal Interest in Enforcing the Credit Hour

✍ Scribed by Jane V. Wellman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Weight
57 KB
Volume
2003
Category
Article
ISSN
0271-0560

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The expansion of federal financial aid programs means that in the past twenty years, the federal government has become the biggest single regulator of the student credit hour as a time‐based measure. Yet, the federal government shows interest in moving away from focusing on administrative and financial matters to issues of academic policy and quality.

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