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Article: Community colleges to benefit from new higher ed bill: ambitious higher education legislation is loaded with student aid, community college improvements.(washington update)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- September 17, 2009
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Billed as the most ambitious higher education legislation in years, a measure recently approved by a congressional committee has a number of provisions that may help students and community colleges for years to come.
Passed with much fanfare by a House panel this summer, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) would raise the maximum Pell Grant and then peg it to a level slightly above inflation, with the top grant increasing from $5,550 to $6,900 in 10 years at a cost of $47 billion. The bill's proposed $2 billion in new funds for minority-serving institutions also has generated interest among historically Black colleges and other institutions. ...