Beagan Proposes Cuts in Student Aid T Credit Takes a Bounce
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he 'Chanticleer Beagan proposes cuts in student aid shington D.C. (CPS) - In its cuts that would push some three posed similarly drastic cuts in 1981, colleges and deeply cut Guaranteed said. --.- budget proposal to Congress million students off federal finan- 1982 and 1983 -- wants to abolish the Student Loan (GSL) and Pell Grant Wayne State President Dr. David week. the Reaaan adminis- cia1 aid programs next year College Work-Study program, funding. Adamany thought the proposal a Its aim, the White Hotise said in a product of "a mistaken commentary published with the philosophy." kudget proposal, is to make stu- "It suggestrs those responsible dents, not taxpayers, pay for col- for writing it are isolated from the lege. real world,"Joyce Payne of the Of- "Students are the principal bene- fice for the Advancment of Public ficiaries of their investment in Black Colleges agree's. higher education," the statement "If the budget is pa'ssed millions said.'"It is therefore reasonable to of students across the nation would expect them -- not taxpayers -- to be unable to afford to go to college. shoulder most of the costs." It would mean a 45 percent reduc- Specifically, the administration tion in the amount of aid that is now wants: available,"Susan Shakette, aid di- *A $2.3 billion cut in total Educa- rector at Eastern Washington Uni- tion Department expenditures to versity, said. $14.7 billion. - .-.,, ...-. Some observers, how,ever, - *A dro~in colleee students' aid diubted congress Will pass the funds to $4.5 billion &om $8.2 billion. b'udget. which would push some three mil: "I don't think Congress takes the lion students off aid programs. proposals seriously at all," Julianne *To abolish the work Still Thrift of the National Associa- study program and vocational tion of Independent Colleges and education funding. Universities said. *A funding cut of two-thirds to She recalls that "Congress has historically black colleges. shown over and over again that it *Cuts in Guaranteed Student will not allow the administration to Loans, Pell Grants and a federal make these massive cuts." anti-drug program. Atwell adds that "this year the *To move some students from the proposals are the worst we've ever current GSL into an expanded In- seen, so you could argue that they're come Contingent Loan program, in so outrageous no one will pay any which students repay their loans in attention to them. Maybe the good amounts determined by how much news is that it's so bad." money they make after graduation. Much to some lobbyists' surprise, The outcry from college lobbyists (though, Congress did pass hefty in Washington, students and federal college program cuts in educators around the country was 1981. So Atweil adds preventing cuts immediate. this year "will take a lot of work. "Enrollments would drop. The We're taking the (threat of cuts) impact on higher education would quite seriously." be almost incom- prehensible,"American Counc,l on Thrift also counsels that "we all Education president Robert Atwell need to stand up and say we carc. and let Congess know what we need. " The aid programs' standing in Congress, moreover, already may t credit takes a bounce have been weakened. Education This is not a new problem at JSU. requesting that he pay up at the paid for by students using checks, Secreta'ry William Bennett's "un- eer Senior Editor According to Kirkland, the Univer- business office within five days. another 40 percent by student aid fair statements" about aid and the quality of colleges "make the public e State University sity usually receives an average of Regardless of whether the student (grants and loans), and the remain- lose confidence in financial aid orcing a tighter check $7,000 - 8,000 in bad checks from pays within five days or not, the bill ing 20 percent by students using pro- near future, due to students per semester. He de- is added to his student account, cash, credit cards. or monev orders. giams." dollars in bad checks scribed the $22,000 figure existing The week before the adminis- veral students recent- this semester as "ridiculously "We're going to have to get a stricter check policy if this tration made its budget proposals. high." problem continues." Ben Kirkland, University Comptroller Atwell himself wrote a public lctter to college presidents around the "It has gotten much worse this Kirkland said. If the student does "We're going to have to get a nation saying that some represent- semester, and we are extremely not pay up, he cannot register for stricter check policy if this problem atives now view education "as just s written by students in concerned about it," Kirkland said. further courses, but can continue continues. Some possibilities could another special interest group" that ter alone, and this is just According to Kirkland, the cur- going to class. include not confirming their regis- may not deserve support. rent University check policy dic- tration. Most schools say if you "Congress realizes the value of how things will be when the tates that when a check is returned Kirkland said that approximately don't pay up, you can't go to school. young peoples' education," Eastern es are due Feb..4," Kirkland because of insufficient funds, the 40 percent of the University fees Maybe we'll have to do that too," Washington's Shackette says stl~d~ntis sent a certified letter (such as tuition and housing) are Kirkland said. , , , , , . hopefully. '. '. , , THE CHANTICLEER,Thursday, January 29, 1987 5 -. * . 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