Quoted: Sara Goldrick-Rab, an associate professor of education policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that most of the eligibility changes Congress has made so far in order to preserve the maximum grant have had little basis in research. For the most part, she said, they were ?reactive and detrimental to the overall message that we want to use aid to make decisions,? Goldrick-Rab said. ?They look like acts of desperation rather than acts of good public policy.?