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Of Time and the Feds: The Federal Interest in Enforcing the Credit Hour
Author(s) -
Wellman Jane V.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
new directions for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0741
pISSN - 0271-0560
DOI - 10.1002/he.111
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , higher education , business , finance , quality (philosophy) , public administration , accounting , economics , political science , economic growth , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology
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.