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Pell Grant Faces Short Fall of $6 Billion
in The Universities Weblog, on September 21, 2008
...The federal Pell Grant program is staring into the face of a huge shortfall for the 2008-09 academic year, according to the NY Times . The grant program that provides assistance for college on th...
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Bush Moves to Expand Pell Grant Funding
in The Universities Weblog, on February 1, 2008
...ident Bush's 2009 federal budget proposal will include a $2.6 billion dollar expansion of the Pell Grant program.
The Pell Grant helps low income students and families pay for college. At the m...
Reasons to File Your FAFSA
in The Universities Weblog, on January 30, 2008
...use, parents who have decent jobs, etc. So you figure you're not going to get a penny from the Pell Grant , since it's need based.
Should you fill out the FAFSA (the Free Application for F...
Now Dartmouth...
in The Universities Weblog, on January 26, 2008
Dartmouth has followed the lead of other top schools like Harvard, Yale, and Duke, and done away with its student loan programs.
A number of top tier colleges and universities in the past few months have revamped their financial aid philosophies. The new Dartmouth policy means that loans at the...
Scholarships Without Visas?
in The Universities Weblog, on December 3, 2007
...more of a red herring than a real issue. Kilgore lost.
You have to be here legally to get the Pell grant. And for most scholarships, you have to fill out the fafsa (the federal document t...
Hillary Releases Higher Ed Proposal
in The Universities Weblog, on October 12, 2007
...oposal's details include:
Doubling the Hope Tax Credit
Increasing the maximum payout of the Pell Grant
Doubling the education award for Americorp volunteers
Simplifying the financial aid ...
Student Loan Bill Signed Into Law
in The Universities Weblog, on September 29, 2007
...hat the bill is not entirely funded yet and that finding money to fund it fully and to increase the Pell Grant will require work on the part of Congress. Between now and 2012 the Pell Grant will be in...
Ranking Community Colleges
in The Universities Weblog, on August 21, 2007
...ob in higher education: teaching lower-income students. In 1980, just 38 percent of recipients of a Pell Grant (the main federal need-based financial aid program) attended community colleges or other ...
College Financial Aid
in The Parenting Weblog, on February 28, 2007
...r-achiever is to apply for a grant which, like scholarships, need not be paid back. The Federal Pell Grant is just one example.
Need-based Financial Aid are for those who, obviously, are not ab...
Helping Families Afford College
in The Universities Weblog, on January 29, 2007
...d first by the college after a student submits a financial aid form, Vedder said. There are federal Pell grants, institutional grants and state grants awarded to students based on many factors, from f...
Will Democrats Reform Higher Education?
in The Universities Weblog, on November 30, 2006
...ng changes. Since President George W. Bush took office, the Republicans failed to raise the maximum Pell Grant amount significantly as promised. Instead, in February 2002 the Republicans fixed student...
Study Abroad Strategies
in The Universities Weblog, on October 19, 2006
... than the usual cost of attendance for their school may be able to get an increase in their Federal Pell Grant to help cover those costs."
The costs associated with studying abroad vary greatly ...
Streamlining financial aid
in The Online Universities Weblog, on February 16, 2005
...ing, written correspondence, a call center, and the distribution of funds under the Direct Loan and Pell Grant programs. Mac Curtis, president and chief executive of Pearson, said that students and pa...
Bearing the costs of college
in The Online Universities Weblog, on December 27, 2004
...$ 300 million in the 2005-6 academic year, at least 1.3 million students will receive smaller Pell Grants, the nation's primary scholarship for those of low income, according to two analyses...
How the Grinch Stole Your Financial Aid
in The Universities Weblog, on December 23, 2004
...e Chronicle of Higher Education :
About 90,000 students could be disqualified from receiving Pell Grants and other forms of federal and state financial aid under a change, scheduled to be issue...