Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r V Monday Oct. 10, 1977 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIV, >To. 11 t ?? > \ > I Up, up and away iiocKeung away from the ground poses no ) problems for USC cheerleader Blair Standridge during football games. With a trami _ * * ' ? ncip lie mis spirits by springing skyward. > I a in i Mar* MtuMhr-THI AMCICOCK use note total alio By MABTI1A WOODI1AM ( amecock Staff Writer Of the nine USC campuses, none get the full South Carolina educational institutions as awh? Funding for all state-supported schools is d South Carolina General Assembly and adopted 1 Education, said President James B. Holderm I/1! 'I 1 LVIDHII f 1 v . .TvmiK I..* uiiKiuig. (H'visea ny uie monies principally in relation to student enrolln Kach campus is allotted from $1,000 to $2,500 each school. Since the formula was installed several year money from the General Assembly in relation t< lormula, Holderman said. The legislature has often reduced funds reqi order to balance the entire S C. budget. wi\Iv/* ?1 ? ? *? x n^uio. reieaseu oy me p appropriated $44,034,038 for 1977-78, which is 9 formula. The Spartanburg campus will receive only 77 | percent; Coastal will receive 99 percent; USC t 94 percent. Holderman said the increase for Spartanburg full funding is achieved. Clemson University is appropriated 97 perce for 98 percent. TO III'M* the USC system to get full funds. ciuaing an 01 us nraucn campuses will De presci Private agei HEW collect By SIIAKMIN BABNKS (iamecock Staff Writer A private collection agency will s<x>n assist Welfare in collecting defaulted federally insui HKW's Office of Education, which is now re soliciting proposals from organizations havinj sumer loans and in tracing the whereabouts of d "TIIE IDEA for going to the outside to get chantment at the national level in the present o and nationally," said Hay Hart well Jr., chiel Financial Assistance regional office in Atlanti He said that in Region IV. which includes So about 40,000 students have yet to be paid The cl TIIK OFFICE of Education has solicited bids contract by December. The contracted agency will be a national com regional headquarters. "Our office in Atlanta v this region to the agency each month, starting w I'NDEH THE present system. HEW is respon: loans. "We have gone to computers to help with this has cut down on our productivity since w programmers," the collection's branch chief : Defaulted student loan cases are referred to D.C., for prosecution. With the nrivsifp ?0(>nrv nmnlin'cH ih?? rlofan r- "O?V...r.wjv?, ?>IV UVIMU agency for collection before sending the account ALTHOUGH SOMK students are not finan< students in professional areas with good-payi Hartwell said. "We have to contact professio loans and won't pay up." jiven >ttment I amount of funds allotted to them, and the le get only 94 percent of allotted funds, etermined by a formula mandated by the >v the South Carolina Commission on Higher an. commission, calls for the distribution t>n lent," Holderman said per student enrolled. The amount varies at s ago. USC hasn't received its full share of > the number of students pledged through the nested by state agencies and institutions in resident's office, the Columbia campus is 3 percent of full funding as allotted bv the percent of full funding; Aiken will receive BO wo-year programs as it unit is appropriated ; campus in particular will be substantive il nt of full funding, and The Citadel is slated a unitary funding plan for the university innted to the Commission on Higher Education See IT \ I IS. page ncy to help loans the Department of Health. Education and -ed student loans sponsible for collection of student loans, is nationwide experience in collecting con efaulters. help in collecting came because of disenollection system We're snowed under here f of the collections branch of the Student a. uth Carolina, some 49,000 claims involving O inlnl AAA AAA (lllcll dl^Ul ?**;>,UUUVIAIU. ; from private agencies, and will award the puiljr null *>111 WO iuv.aicu III I'lllfS YYIIIC'll <irr vill refer about 400 defaulted accounts from ith the oldest accounts," Hart well said sible for collecting federally insured student the increasing load of default loans, but still e have to have extra clerical persons and >aid i the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, Ited account will lx? referred to the outside to the U.S. Attorney. :ially able to make their loan payments, ng jobs often refuse to repay their loans, nals, such as doctors, who have defaulted