Long Honored with NASFAA Quill Award

Associate Professor Bridget Terry Long recently received the Robert P. Huff Golden Quill Award from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA). The Quill Award is given annually to a person for outstanding contributions to literature on student financial aid.

"I feel greatly honored to receive this award and be in the company of such distinguished past recipients," Long said. "I am so happy to see that what began as my own personal quest to improve college opportunity has had an impact on the way we think about increasing affordability for students."

Long's research focuses on state aid programs, diversity issues, cost containment, remediation, and community college concerns. She applies economic theories and methods to examine various aspects of higher education in the United States like access, choice, success in postsecondary education, factors that influence college student outcomes, and the effects of financial aid policies on colleges.

Several of her research papers examine the enrollment and distributional effects of state and federal financial aid programs. Long previously received a NASFAA Sponsored Research Grant that supported her research for "The Connection between Government Aid and College Pricing," published in the association's Journal of Student Financial Aid in 2003.

Nominees for the award are judged on the basis of published work which exemplifies the highest quality of research methodology, analysis, or topical writing on the subject of student financial aid or its administration. The national chairman selects the Golden Quill recipient with consideration given to nominations submitted by the NASFAA research committee and the editorial board of the Journal of Student Financial Aid.

Past recipients of this award include David Breneman, former dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia; Alexander Astin, Allan M. Cartter Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles and founding director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA; and Michael McPherson, president of the Spencer Foundation.