Pell Grant

This is a school of which I feel proud to be a part. I have had fantastic times here and have found myself growing intellectually, socially and emotionally in way in which I could never have predicted. Despite this, I am deeply troubled by the issue of student debt due to the cost of tuition, both within Wayne State University (WSU), and within the country as a whole. I feel that this is an issue, which affects almost every aspect of student life and taints the overall experience of college. I…

universities are public, both are in Georgia, both have acceptance rates of 50% to 60%. Yet the difference in Pell grant recipient success between the schools is quite large. In the University of Georgia, where the net cost for low income students is $8,004, the Pell recipient graduation rate it 72.4%. Georgia Southern University has a net cost for low income students of $13,532, and the Pell recipient graduation rate of 46.9%. Now, this might initially sound in favor of The University of…

Due to the high college costs, many students are seeking alternatives to help them pay for college tuition. Some of the basic financial programs include the FAFSA, scholarships and private loans. Other alternatives include Pell grants, work-study jobs, and enrolling in a community college. Private loans are available to undergraduate and graduate students from finance-based institutions like Sallie Mae. They are perfect for filling the funding gap when savings, scholarships,…

When deciding to have kids of your own money and a long term finical commitment will be needed whether you want to or not. The average cost to raise a child to the age of eighteen cost around 300k according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in August 2014. This totally does not include the outrages cost for a college education. There are many ways to save money like going to a two-year technical college, or financial plans that give you support but even then a two-year…

growing budget deficits it allowed the purchasing power of the Pell grant to erode (John, 2003). As a whole the government has lost a lot of percentage per dollar capita and the currency inflated. The government within the budget of federal and state government, it is believed they have decreased there percentage of pay out and increased the people percentage to pay, even though, the taxes we pay should support that. Before Pell grants, students could go to school and leave with a degree debt…

Education Program In a developed country like the US, every tax revenue should be used carefully and usefully to make sure that parts of the taxpayers ' efforts do not waste on unnecessary things. Thus, when President Obama decided to extend the Pell Grant Program, which provides student aids to eligible inmates to take college courses while in prison (Kerr, 2015), politicians and taxpayers split into two groups. The opposing group argued that the correction department should focus on existing…

prisons and wanted to have a program that offered incarcerated men a free two year program. Although the Cornell University has been at the prisons since 1995, it was 2009 when the program received a grant from the Sunshine Lady Foundation and grants from the provost at the University. With those grants, the staff were able to be able to organize the program to be able to offer the two year degree by partnering with Cayuga Community College. Faculty, doctoral students, and graduate students are…

article, “The problem(s) with Obama’s community college plan – and an alternative,” she states that the plan would cost sixty billion dollars over a ten-year period and that the money would be better used to expand existing federal programs, such as Pell Grant (Para 4). The plan was to benefit the students who are in need of financial aid to be able to attain a higher education that is affordable for them. But, at the same time students who are well-off are also able to attend community…

Whether or not community college should be free to attend is a widely debated issue. It has the nation split on what choice would benefit the nation. Some say providing tuition free community college would benefit the lower income students of the nation who can't afford the nation’s top rated universities. They would settle for free community college than an expensive four year university. Others believe that providing tuition free community would just create more problems than it solves and…

There has been the suggestion of Pell Grants for inmates, which are grants essentially paying for a college education for prisoners while they were incarcerated. Undoubtedly, this created a lot of mixed feelings and some argues, “Why should prisoners be given a free college educations?” However, there are not many other options at this point. America and either set up mandatory education within a prison and support the Pell Grants or continue to build more prisons for the growing…