Word: pell
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...addition, students who leave school during the semester will now be required to repay their Pell grants...
...would gather the children into the car and pull up to Johnston Gate," John Fox says. "From my window then, I could see these two individuals running absolutely pell-mell across the yard...it was really quite cute...
During most of this decade the federal government faced substantial cost and budget constraints and Pell grant maximums actually decreased in real dollars, while decreasing even more when measured in constant dollars. From 1990 through 1995, for example, individual students received less Pell Grant assistance each year than they did the previous year--and the College bridged the gap using its own resources. I might gently remind the editors that during this extended period of Pell decreases there were no campus editorials calling for students to receive less scholarship money because of reduced Pell authorizations...
...worth noting as well, and as your initial article on Pell funding correctly reported, there are complex, extensive and occasionally arcane federal regulations governing precisely how much financial aid individual students can receive. In most instances we are required to reduce institutional financial aid as students receive additional federal funds. The College could allow students next year to "benefit from the Pell grant increase," but it would be illegal in many cases...
Harvard continues to meet full need for all aided students--those receiving Pell grants and those who do not--in a world where few institutions are able to sustain the principle. And Harvard does so in spite of the uncertainties of federal appropriations for grant funding. The College's commitment to meeting full need will not waiver, and students and families have every right to expect constancy and predictability in that commitment. In return, it seems fair to assume that no single category of scholarship aid, i.e. Pell grants, be considered an "exempt" resource in a student's aid package...