The Pell Grant would have to be doubled in order for its purchasing power to be anywhere near what it used to be, a scholar observes.
- Retired Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of San Francisco
A proposal to double the value of Pell Grants for college students could finally start to restore their value to what they were when they were created back in 1972.
Pell Grants, the federal aid program for low-income students, are down to covering only 30 percent of tuition, from 80 percent in the 1970s.
What will a Trump presidency mean for America’s 6,000 colleges and universities, as well as its over 20 million postsecondary students?
Presidential candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have proposed a debt-free or a free college education. Is this feasible? Should wealthier students get such subsidies?
Hillary Clinton’s US$350 billion college plan will need a doubling of the federal government’s funding to colleges. But this large expansion in federal dollars will not be without its own costs.
Last week, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to guarantee that students could attend a community college for free for their first two years. The announcement was one in a series of previews of…
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