In a recent Poll of 30 Anoka-Ramsey community college students, two thirds of the students currently receive financial aid to help pay for school, and 13 of these students said that they would benefit from an increase in the maximum of financial aid awarded to them. The majority of students asked said that tuition was the most challenging expense of ARCC, with the cost of books at a close second.
On March 29th 2010 President Obama unveiled the new reconciliation act. In the reconciliation act Obama focuses on how to make college more readily available and affordable to every prospective and current college student in the United States. Of the twenty students that currently receive financial aid from ARCC, 16 of the polled students receive aid by loan, four by scholarships and 3 were unsure which kind of aid they received. According to Whitehouse.gov the reconciliation act aims to solve college expense issues by completely eliminating banks as private school loan lenders, which only one fifth of the students asked, stated they receive. This would make all student loans directly from the government.
Obama also stated that there would be an increase in the number of students who receive the Pell grant as well as a raise in the maximum amount awarded to each student from the Pell grant. At ARCC however, only five of the 30 students currently utilize the already existing Pell grant. In addition to this the reconciliation act will help to expand the income-based loan repayment plans to graduated students, and make the FASFA forms easier to fill out.
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Great information Angelina. It is a story that I read from beginning to end because the information is so relevant to my life. Thanks for looking into this for us.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great story you wrote from your poll! I havent really looked into financial aid and things like that because I'm only PSEO but I'm realizing that i need to be looking into scholarships and financial aid NOW to be ready! Great Information!
ReplyDeleteI think you did very well on this story! I based my story on financial aid as well, and is surprisingly similar! However, I believe yours is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than mine! Good job!
ReplyDeleteThis is not only a great topic, but a great story. You did very well transferring your poll statistics to a story. I really enjoyed reading this, well done!
ReplyDeletegreat job. I always get confused when reading anything political! so thank you for putting it into words that i could understand ;)
ReplyDeleteReally well written. I wish you explained in detail what the Pell grant is, though.
ReplyDeleteThis was really well written. A lot of people can benefit from this story. I liked how you used other sources (Obama). Good job.
ReplyDeleteI like how took different angles to the story. Instead of purely going with the Obama's reconciliation act you tied in the financial aid of ARCC. So you managed to localize this national topic to ARCC.
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