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Title: Need-Based Aid, Racial Proportionality, and the College Work-Study Program of the National Youth Administration, 1934-1943
Language: English
Authors: Scott Gelber (ORCID 0000-0002-8515-7474)
Source: History of Education Quarterly. 2026 66(1):3-22.
Availability: Cambridge University Press. 100 Brook Hill Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994. Tel: 800-872-7423; Tel: 845-353-7500; Fax: 845-353-4141; e-mail: subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org; Web site: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid), Student Financial Aid, Disproportionate Representation, Work Study Programs, Higher Education, College Students, Educational History, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, African American Students, Access to Education
DOI: 10.1017/heq.2025.10092
ISSN: 0018-2680
1748-5959
Abstract: Often overshadowed by the GI Bill, the National Youth Administration (NYA) supervised the first federal need-based financial aid program in the United States. Tracing the origin of federal aid back to the era of the NYA reveals that the rationale for need-based assistance rests closer to the core of the American policymaking tradition. This article contributes to previous histories of the NYA by demonstrating how its decentralized implementation empowered local college officials who jeopardized the program's needs-based intent. Meanwhile, this localized administration also facilitated the NYA's unusual and relatively successful support for Black college students.
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