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Maryland becomes first state to outlaw scholarship displacement by public colleges
Last edited Sat Jul 22, 2017, 02:19 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: Washington Post
Maryland becomes first state to outlaw scholarship displacement by public colleges
By Tim Prudente July 5 at 8:04 PM
Again and again, college financial aid offices would frustrate Jan Wagner and Michele Waxman Johnson.
As executives of Central Scholarship, a nonprofit in Owings Mills that provides scholarships and interest-free loans to Maryland students, they would award a student money, and a university would reduce that student’s financial aid by the same amount.
“It totally undermines our very existence,” said Wagner, Central Scholarship’s president.
The common practice provoked Wagner and Johnson, the organization’s vice president, into a two-year campaign to stop it. Their effort led to a new law that took effect July 1, making Maryland the first state to ban scholarship displacement by public colleges.
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By Tim Prudente July 5 at 8:04 PM
Again and again, college financial aid offices would frustrate Jan Wagner and Michele Waxman Johnson.
As executives of Central Scholarship, a nonprofit in Owings Mills that provides scholarships and interest-free loans to Maryland students, they would award a student money, and a university would reduce that student’s financial aid by the same amount.
“It totally undermines our very existence,” said Wagner, Central Scholarship’s president.
The common practice provoked Wagner and Johnson, the organization’s vice president, into a two-year campaign to stop it. Their effort led to a new law that took effect July 1, making Maryland the first state to ban scholarship displacement by public colleges.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-becomes-first-state-to-outlaw-scholarship-displacement-by-public-colleges/2017/07/05/63133ec4-61a0-11e7-8adc-fea80e32bf47_story.html