MICUA

Cuts to federal student financial aid, coupled with the national recession and the possibility of additional reductions, are causing serious stress for Maryland students and putting their academic dreams in jeopardy. Furthermore, these developments negatively impact our nation’s economic competitiveness, stifle job creation, and severely restrict the nation’s ability to achieve its college completion goals.

In recent years, federal student aid has been cut by $30 billion through elimination of the year-round Pell award; elimination of funding for the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnerships (LEAP) Program; elimination of the in-school interest exemption for graduate and professional students; and reductions in federal funding for the TRIO Programs, GEAR UP, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG) Program, and graduate education programs.

* Link to an external website (http://studentaidalliance.org) maintained by the Student Aid Alliance

** Link to an external website (http://mdelect.net) maintained by the Maryland State Archives, the Maryland General Assembly, and the State Board of Elections

*** Link to an external website (http://www.loc.gov/index.html) maintained by the Library of Congress