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By CotlBgo Press Service
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? If rumors about
the 1986 Education Department budget prove
true, one of every four students who' apply
for federal financial aid won't get it.
Students from middle-income families and
those attending private or out-of-state
schools would suffer most under the proposals,
financial aid experts forecast.
rial balloons sent up by the Office of
dinagement and Budget in early January
signal the Reagan administration may try to
limit students to no more than $4,000 a year
in financial aid, and disqualify families that
make more than $30,000 a year from the
Guaranteed Student Loan and Pell grant
programs.
THE BUDGET proposals should reach
Congress in February. Congress will then accept,
reject or approve figures of its own.
It could be months before Congress and
? president actually agree on funding
u res.
"If the proposals are accepted ? of
course, we hope they won't be ? it means a
serious restriction to graduate study loan aid
and to all kinds of undergraduate aid," said
Charles Saunders of the American Council
on Education.
f inancial aid directors around the country
nuree the nronnsaU could hurl needy and
middle-income students.
"A $30,000 income cap would have a
significant impact on our student popula
f|n, on a tremendous amount of middle
come families," said Ldmond Vignoul,
University of Oregon financial aid director.
Under current rules, students from
families earning more than $30,(XX) a yeai
must pass a "needs test" to get lederal aiu.
Now the administration wants to cut of
such students regardless of need.
"Without the loans and grants, their op
tions will be limited and this obviously wil
have a detrimental effect on our enroll
mem," Vignoul said.
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Texas A and M's spokesman.
"It would eliminate a great numn
I students who might otherwise benefit
higher education," he said. "Students
not get an education because of la
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bid r dilemma Congress and the Administration
fact in deciding how to cut spending, but
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ake universities, Bannister said. The change
lily ij#yld also make education at branch cam- rptises
and delayed entry into college more
3an Many of those^excluded will.be from
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ffer students will have the option of a parental
l^it under condition* m^lU^ifavornbte
ica* Bannister, however, points to the con|EBp;
tfdtrable support in Congress fcreduca- &
ap. uonal spending programs as an indication
that the President's plan will not be inrt- i)i
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i of dent Loin program, started in 1958, Has
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jver past its original term of eight years.
iny?' s ' The possible compromises that might eftj
at sue between Congress and the Presfdent.
uch may include caps on loans and grants at
of- higher income levels. Bannister said.
idents resources."
with a Benson admits the $4,GOO aid cap might
:nson, not affect students at moderately-priced institutions,
but students at private or out-of)er
of state schools, who usually receive more than
from $4,000 per year, would have to find other
might financing or other schools.
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cap," said John Klacik of Western
Washington University.
"AND ! was kind of surprised to hear the
$30,000 income limit would affect about 50
percent of our GSI student population," he
adds.
Klacik condemns the proposals as "a
direct attack on what 1 consider the principles
of financial aid: provide students access
to higher education, encourage choice
between institutions, and acknowledge the
persistancc to get through four years of
college."
"Part of my concerns are the dichotomy,"
he said. "We talk about cutting access and
choice at the same time we talk about cx
cellencc in education. If cuts need to he
made, I've heard more intelligent proposals
that would target funds more precisely."
Indeed, the OMB may make other drastic
proposals, ACE's Saunders warns.
EDUCATORS EXPF.CT the OMB to try
again to eliminate $412 million in Supplemental
Grants, $76 million in State Student
Incentive Grants and $17 million in
graduate fellowships lor women and
minorities, he says.
Another recycled OMB plan would freeze
next year's education budget, WWL 's Klacik
said.
M e;inwhile, the Department ol l-.dueation,
burdened with changing leadership and an
uncertain future. is reviewing all the pro
posals, hut officials ret use comment.
"We know what the administration has
proposed," ;i department spokesman said.
"But we can't comment until Congress is in
session and we get our piograms over there
10 weigh them against the administration's."
EDUCATION EXPERTS hope Reagan's
recent nomination of William Bennett to
replace outgoing Education Secretary Terrel
Bell is a reprieve from the adpiinistration's
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