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...Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) launched economicdiversity.org last Friday, becoming the first website to make financial aid data for more than 2,000 colleges and universities available to the public. Executive Director of TICAS Bob Shireman said that there were a few reasons for making the information, which includes the number of financial aid applicants, race and ethnicity breakdowns, and income distribution charts, accessible to the public. “We wanted to provide more information so that colleges pay more attention to their efforts to bring low-income students to colle?...
Congress has also increased the maximum size of Pell Grants by $100 to $2,440, Shireman says...
...news is that other programs like matching funds for fellowships and state research grants have been severely restricted, particularly affecting large research universities such as Harvard, Shireman says...
...substitute for a year-long budget, the government has funded its programs through a series of continuing resolutions. These have resulted in frequent fluctuations in budgeted allocations for education and have confounded planning for educational institutions, Shireman says...
...reason universities have not seen the drastic funding cuts once feared has been a massive effort by college administrators, professors and students to plead the case in Washington, Shireman says...