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Report Calls for Increase in Pell Grant Admissions

By Hannah Urtz May 19, 2017

Elite universities can afford to admit a much larger amount of low-income Pell Grant recipients without significantly hurting their graduation rates or budgets, according to a report released by the Georgetown...

Budgets Slash Student Aid

By Kshithij Shrinath March 24, 2015

Federal financial aid for college students has been slashed in proposed budget resolutions released by both the Senate and the House of Representatives last week. The House resolution, which is more...

Loan Reforms Extend Eligibility

By Laura Owsiany September 9, 2014

President Obama expanded the federal "Pay As You Earn" program for federal student loan borrowers through executive order this summer, allowing those with loans borrowed before 2007 to be eligible. Under...

Pell Grants Secure in Current Bill

By David Schuler September 27, 2011

A Senate subcommittee voted last Thursday to keep the maximum Pell Grant award at $5,550, while cutting the National Institutes of Health budget by $190 million, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. One...

Pell Grants Avoid Major Cuts

By David Schuler April 29, 2011

After several months of negotiations between Congress, the White House and the Department of Education, Pell Grant funding and other federal sources of financial aid have emerged from the budget process...

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