Federal Pell Grants: Maximum awards & total costs
Summary: This graph shows the increase in the maximum award of pell grants in comparison to the rising costs of college from 1976 – 2008.
Topic: Pell Grants
Category: Image
What is it? Graph
Publication info: US Department of Education, 2008
Author: none given
Location: http://www.nea.org/assets/img/content/09BB-Pell-Grant-Max-Award-vs-Total-Costs.gif
Accessed: 3/7/09
Audience and agenda:
The Department of Education is the governmental body that is in charge of the United States education system. The agenda of this organization is to keep Americans informed on current education issues. The audience that this information would geared towards would be people following the rising costs of college tuition, or Pell Grant recipients.
Usefulness:
This graph really illustrates well the gap between the maximum Pell Grant award and the total cost of a year of college. Right now the maximum Pell Grant award covers approximately 1/3 of the total college costs. There are programs at 40-50 colleges, they are called promise programs. The University of Oregon just started one this year called Pathway Oregon. These programs pay the remainder of a students tuition that is not covered through Pell Grants. The federal government needs to keep increasing funding for Pell Grants so that Promise Programs will be able to thrive and be able to help more people.
Work Cited:
http://pathwayoregon.uoregon.edu/?p=home
Filed under: Source notes
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