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Article: Mississippi may cut student financial aid
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- August 22, 2000
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Katie Howell
University Wire
08-22-2000
(Daily Mississippian) (U-WIRE) OXFORD, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students may receive a cut in financial aid and scholarship funds in addition to the tuition increase that took place over the summer.
Legislators are predicting a deficit in the spring, despite the tuition hike, and are making plans to counteract with a financial aid cut.
This year, 18 student financial aid programs exist that serve about 33,768 students, approximately half of the 62,000 who attend Mississippi public universities. In the last fiscal year, 32,160 state students received $31 million in financial aid during the 1999-2000 school year, said assistant higher education ...