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Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice released a brief Wednesday calling on the federal government to extend student emergency aid grants that were available during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Congress funded the grants through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF). But even as disruptions caused by the pandemic fade from public focus, Bryce McKibben the Hope Center’s senior director of policy and advocacy, is urging Congress to continue this “successful policy” that helped struggling students stay in college.
He noted in the brief that “widespread basic needs insecurity in higher education remains, and the pandemic relief money has dried up.”
The brief recommends that Congress allow colleges and financial aid offices to fund the emergency grants through pre-existing federal aid programs and transfer their Federal Work-Study allocations into the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG) program to operate permanently as emergency aid.
