Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality?

Postsecondary financial aid (including scholarship awards) in the United States are as complicated and diverse in their function as they are in their long-term implications and outcomes. Through an examination of third party scholarships and the students who receive them, this study seeks to underst...

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Main Author: Salcedo, Rebekah Hoppel
Other Authors: Deil-Amen, Regina
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228176
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spelling ndltd-arizona.edu-oai-arizona.openrepository.com-10150-2281762015-10-23T04:56:07Z Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality? Salcedo, Rebekah Hoppel Deil-Amen, Regina Lee, Jenny Jaquette, Ozan Humphrey, Keith Deil-Amen, Regina motivation scholarships third party typology Higher Education access agency Postsecondary financial aid (including scholarship awards) in the United States are as complicated and diverse in their function as they are in their long-term implications and outcomes. Through an examination of third party scholarships and the students who receive them, this study seeks to understand the dynamic intersection between a student's contextual environment, motivation and agency by analyzing students' interpretations of themselves and their place within the larger financial and scholarship context. The Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of human motivation and Deil-Amen & Tevis' (2010) circumscribed agency framework form the theoretical foundation of this study. The main contributions of this study include a description of how third party scholarships fit into the larger financial aid picture, an index of what eligibility components constitute third party scholarships, the creation of Third Party Scholarship Recipient Typology, and a synthesis of theory that informs future policy and practice. 2012 text Electronic Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228176 en Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. The University of Arizona.
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Salcedo, Rebekah Hoppel
Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality?
description Postsecondary financial aid (including scholarship awards) in the United States are as complicated and diverse in their function as they are in their long-term implications and outcomes. Through an examination of third party scholarships and the students who receive them, this study seeks to understand the dynamic intersection between a student's contextual environment, motivation and agency by analyzing students' interpretations of themselves and their place within the larger financial and scholarship context. The Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of human motivation and Deil-Amen & Tevis' (2010) circumscribed agency framework form the theoretical foundation of this study. The main contributions of this study include a description of how third party scholarships fit into the larger financial aid picture, an index of what eligibility components constitute third party scholarships, the creation of Third Party Scholarship Recipient Typology, and a synthesis of theory that informs future policy and practice.
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title Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality?
title_short Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality?
title_full Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality?
title_fullStr Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality?
title_full_unstemmed Third Party Scholarships and the Students Who Receive Them: Increasing Opportunity or Perpetuating Inequality?
title_sort third party scholarships and the students who receive them: increasing opportunity or perpetuating inequality?
publisher The University of Arizona.
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