Financial Aid for Low-Income College Students
Why get a college education? The reason you get will be slightly different from each person you ask. However there will be one major commonality among them all that is the importance of a college education in today’s society. The emphasis that today’s society puts on a college education impacts the way people act and live. The process of finding the means of getting into college and then somehow affording it is quite the daunting task, especially for those in low-income households. The Federal Pell Grant Program provides need-based grants to low-income undergraduate students to promote access to postsecondary education ("Federal Pell Grant Program"). The creation of the Pell Grant helps …show more content…
The goal or necessity of a college education is not as accessible for those in low-income households. Financial aid has been created to help combat this issue. One state in particular has done a lot for low-income and truly middle class students. The University of California enrolls a large number of high-performing students of all economic backgrounds (Leonhardt 1). California is making strides to help low-income students which helps the lower class as a group the ability to get out of the lower class. This breaks the cycle of the poorer class getting trapped remaining the poorer class because of a lack of opportunity. The University of California is leading the way among top colleges for low-income students in the predominantly affluent liberal-arts colleges (Leonhardt 1). Universities like the ones in California help to combat the problem of low-income people being unable to afford a higher education. The significance of the low-income students getting college degrees is the connotation and general understanding that someone with a degree is better prepared for a higher paying job and therefore more likely to be hired than the same person without the degree. The college degree allows an individual more opportunities to better …show more content…
The scales of social reality are the social structure that divides society into increasingly larger more general groupings. The scales include the micro-scale, meso-scale, the macro-scale, and the global scale (Lawrence). The scales of social reality are important to examine the impact of events or social structures on varying groups on different
Why get a college education? The reason you get will be slightly different from each person you ask. However there will be one major commonality among them all that is the importance of a college education in today’s society. The emphasis that today’s society puts on a college education impacts the way people act and live. The process of finding the means of getting into college and then somehow affording it is quite the daunting task, especially for those in low-income households. The Federal Pell Grant Program provides need-based grants to low-income undergraduate students to promote access to postsecondary education ("Federal Pell Grant Program"). The creation of the Pell Grant helps …show more content…
The goal or necessity of a college education is not as accessible for those in low-income households. Financial aid has been created to help combat this issue. One state in particular has done a lot for low-income and truly middle class students. The University of California enrolls a large number of high-performing students of all economic backgrounds (Leonhardt 1). California is making strides to help low-income students which helps the lower class as a group the ability to get out of the lower class. This breaks the cycle of the poorer class getting trapped remaining the poorer class because of a lack of opportunity. The University of California is leading the way among top colleges for low-income students in the predominantly affluent liberal-arts colleges (Leonhardt 1). Universities like the ones in California help to combat the problem of low-income people being unable to afford a higher education. The significance of the low-income students getting college degrees is the connotation and general understanding that someone with a degree is better prepared for a higher paying job and therefore more likely to be hired than the same person without the degree. The college degree allows an individual more opportunities to better …show more content…
The scales of social reality are the social structure that divides society into increasingly larger more general groupings. The scales include the micro-scale, meso-scale, the macro-scale, and the global scale (Lawrence). The scales of social reality are important to examine the impact of events or social structures on varying groups on different