About the authors
Samuel M. Kipp III | Derek V. Price | Jill K. Wohlford
Samuel M. Kipp III is the founder of Kipp Research and Consulting,
a firm specializing in higher education finance, demographic analysis,
strategic planning and policy analysis services for colleges, states,
financial institutions and other organizations. His career includes nine
years as executive director of the California Student Aid Commission.
He served as chairman of the National Council of Higher Education Loan
Programs during the 1992 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and
was a founding board member of the National Student Clearinghouse. From
1977 to 1985, he worked for the California Postsecondary Education Commission
and authored numerous policy studies on higher education issues.
Recent publications include:
- Keeping the Promise: What California Needs to Know and Do to Expand Higher Education Opportunity for All Its Citizens (The James Irvine Foundation, 2000).
- For All Who Have the Interest and Potential to Learn: Financial Resources, Personal Circumstances, and Perspectives of New Jersey Part-Time Students (New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, 2000).
- A Fresh Look at College-Going Rates in Maine (Finance Authority of Maine, 2000).
- Student Borrowing, Debt Burden, and Default: The Special Case of First-Professional Students in the 1990s (Access Group, 1998).
- “Demographic Trends and Their Impact on the Future of the Pell Grant Program,” in Memory, Reason, Imagination: A Quarter Century of Pell Grants (The College Board, 1998).
- Utah Student Financial Aid: An Examination of Demographic Trends, College Costs, and the Role of Student Financial Aid (Utah State Board of Regents, 1999).
Derek V. Price is director of higher education research at Lumina Foundation for
Education. His work focuses on research and analysis of higher education
access and social inequality, including the issues of attainment, financial
aid and student debt burdens. Before joining Lumina Foundation in January
2001, he was an assistant professor of sociology and the director of the
Center for Educational Research and Leadership at Morehead State University
in eastern Kentucky. Between 1997 and 1999, he served as an adjunct professor
of sociology at American University in Washington, D.C., where he earned
a doctorate in sociology. He also holds a master's degree from the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a bachelor's degree from Duke University
in Durham, N.C. Price advises the National Center for Public Policy and
Higher Education as a national associate. He has received grants from
the American Educational Research Association and has presented his research
at several conferences, including the Financial Aid Research Network,
the Association of Black Sociologists and the Council for Opportunity
in Education.
His recent publications include:
- Student Loan Forbearance and its Relationship to Default (a Lumina Foundation Synopsis, November 2001).
- Merit Aid & Inequality: Evidence from Baccalaureate and Beyond (Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2001).
Jill K. Wohlford is a research assistant at Lumina Foundation for Education. Before joining the research staff at the Foundation, she was an undergraduate student at Indiana University in Bloomington. She graduated with honors in 2000, after majoring in psychology and criminal justice. Wohlford is co-author of Assessing the Feasibility of Family Loans for Early Care and Education, a supplemental report to the Lumina Foundation publication Learning Between Systems: Adapting Higher Eduation Financing Methods to Early Care and Education.
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