Pell Grants and Rural Students

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http://www.dailyyonder.com/pell-grants-and-rural-students/2012/02/10/3754



University of Alabama One-third of the nation's enrollment in community colleges can be found in rural communities. The map above shows rural (red), urban and suburban community colleges. There are 574 rural community colleges and they provide almost all the training needed by the workforce outside urban areas. To see a larger version of this map, click on it.

“It’s an urban myth that the Pell program only helps minority students from urban areas,” said Linda Serra Hagedorn of Iowa State University. “Our data shows that a plurality of grants go to rural students.”

Hagedorn was talking about a new report she and other researchers have produced on Pell grants, the federal program that helps qualifying students pay for the cost of college. Students can apply for yearly grants of up to $5,550 to help pay for tuition.

Much of that money is being used by rural students to go to community colleges in rural communities, according to a new report, "Pell Grants and the Lifting of Rural America’s Future," a joint project of Iowa State, the University of Alabama and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (You can get a full copy of the report here.)

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1. Well okay, but they should still have to clean toilets to get the grants, dang it.

So, to paraphrase Newt, "they know what it means to be at work at a certain time and get paid money for doing work."