Without federal stimulus money, states would have cut tax appropriations for higher education by 2.3 percent. But how states are spending the billions in stimulus varies.
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KLCC s Elizabeth Gabriel reports on financial aid in Oregon.
Yoyo is a high school junior in Eugene. We’re not using her last name to protect her privacy. Although Yoyo still has another year of high school, she’s already concerned about how she’s going to afford college. The 17-year-old works at a local Subway shop and her mom has a full-time job. Still, it’s hard to make ends meet and she doesn’t have a college savings.
And Yoyo sometimes has to explain to her friends the challenges her family faces.
“They just think that, ‘Oh, like, my dad is where he is because he worked hard,’ bullcrap. Because my mom works her butt off all the time. So hard work has nothing to do with it,” she said. “And I think that s the biggest misconception that people think, oh, if you just work hard, you ll get there. No, that s not true at all. Because you see people working hard all the time, and still barely being able to provide for their families.”
LEE GARDNER
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Daniel Greenstein, the new chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, speaks to faculty and staff members during a listening tour to East Stroudsburg University this week.
(Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Chronicle for a Higher Education, Washington D.C. earlier this week.)
Daniel Greenstein is excited, grinning, talking a mile a minute. As chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, he’s days away from unveiling the details of a plan to consolidate six of the system’s 14 public universities into two new, combined institutions. Over the past nine months, the system has held hundreds of meetings to gauge the possibilities for how the new entities might function and hash out the details. The resulting document will be presented to the system’s Board of Governors for initial approval on April 28.