David Feldman receives NASFAA award

David Feldman, from the College of William and Mary, has received the 2012 Robert P. Huff Golden Quill Award of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

Feldman is a professor and chair of the department of economics. The award is given annually in recognition of writing about higher education and financial aid. It was presented at the association's annual conference, held from July 22 through July 25 in Chicago.

Feldman is the co-author of "Why Does College Cost So Much?" with fellow William and Mary economics professor Robert Archibald. He has written many other professional and policy articles on higher education and recently spoke to a NASFAA forum on the state of college access.

"I'm surprised and honored to get this award," Feldman said, according to a press release. "Next year Bob should get it. We've done so much of this work together."

The book examines higher-education costs as part of the entire industrial structure of the country and economic history of the past 100 years. It also emphasizes the role of technology as a force pushing up all service prices, including college.

Feldman has been a faculty member at the College of William and Mary since 1989.

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