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Financial Aid in the News

Teach Grant Program Is Popular With Student-Aid Applicants (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

"A new tuition-grant program for future teachers is causing headaches for the Education Department and American colleges, who are working this week on the complicated job of drafting regulations to carry out the Teach Grant program. But it’s already proving popular with students," The Chronicle of Higher Education. "The department revealed today that of the nearly 200,000 applications already received for federal financial aid for the coming academic year, about 15 percent have a checked box indicating an interest in the Teach Grant."

You can read the complete January 9, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education news blog on-line.

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