Word: gsls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pells. 50 percent entitlements, SEOGs, CWS, GSLs, NDSLs, ACHE, ACE, SSIG, TRIO--this is the language of education politics, where dozens of lobbying groups joust with congressmen and senators over arcane details of entitlement programs, loan programs, and qualification ceilings...
Pointing to another harmful aspect of the new budget, Richard W. Black, assistant director of financial aid, predicted that the number of students eligible for both Pell Grants and GSLs will drop significantly...
Since the number of outside grants has been steadily decreasing, students at GSAS have been depending more and more on the GSLs, added McWade...
...larger difference in operations, of course, is the amount of money up for distributions. Be sides the new complications of needs tests for Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLS), which must be explained over and over throughout the year, there is the constant uncertainly over how much of each of Harvard's overlapping and interlocking programs will survive each week of conflicting predictions. "We talk about it in staff meetings, says Malin, "but it's difficult, actually downright Quixotic, for even the most devoted followers to keep up with what's happening...
None of this is new, but by ceaselessly repeating their twisted argument the Reaganites have shifted the entire context within which the debate over education funding takes place. Rather than discuss whether students should have unlimited access to federal Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLs)--a philosophical argument they consistently lost all winter--the would-be budgetary revolutionaries use severe publicity and bureaucratic bluster to dissuade substantial numbers of students from even applying for aid. Then they point to the dropping loan figures as an example of conservative belt tightening. Rather than justify each separate funding reduction, the Administration emphasizes that...