Resolutions Related to Higher Education

A-16. Financial Support for Postsecondary Education

The National Education Association supports the maintenance and expansion of funding for postsecondary education, including programs of institutional and scholar support, research grants, support for the historically Black and developing institutions, and student financial assistance to assure access and choice for all qualified students—regardless of personal financial means—who wish to pursue postsecondary education. The Association believes that student need, as well as enrollment, should be a criterion for funding postsecondary education. The Association also believes that need-based student financial assistance should be available through all postsecondary education institutions as well as governmental agencies. (1986, 1998)

NOTE: Figures in parentheses represent the years when the resolution was first adopted and last amended or reviewed.