Financial aid

when the ever-stressful conversation of scholarship and financial aid is brought into the mix. It is unethical for an admission office to lower standards for a specific population of students, no matter how badly the student wants to attend or how much a member or the university faculty or staff wants a student to enroll at the university. The Muskingum University Athletic Department continues to put pressure on the Admission and Financial…

finding it difficult to repay their debt. So the trick is for upcoming college students to find a way to gain a solid college education without paying for most of it. The three colleges I am thinking of attending all offer various financial aid and land me in different financial situations after college. My grandfather has done me a wondrous advantage and has been saving for me to attend college since I was very young. There is limited…

applied and was accepted to Belmont University, the school offered an initial merit scholarship of $4,000 a semester, before adding additional funds based on my financial situation. One of the most common national grants that a student may be eligible for is the Pell Grant. It is available for undergraduate students who meet the financial needs and can amount to a maximum of 5,815 per year, for four years if the student remains qualified and chooses to reapply. Another way for students to afford…

students drug test to qualify for financial aid is the best thing to do. Would you believe that anyone would argue that? For the past few years this has been talked about. Students should get drug tested for the aid that they are trying to receive from the government. These days there are over 80 percent of high school graduates that are getting out of school to attend college and they are looking for a way to pay for school. Since Alan W. Purdy created Financial aid for college students it has…

math and reading tutor at the Kumon Learning Center (Niles, Illinois) for more than two years. I also worked as a recreation staff at the Main-Niles Recreation Center where I got the opportunity to assist in five elementary schools, as an inclusion aid. In addition, I also volunteered as a Sunday school teacher and secretary for two years at my church. Furthermore, I also worked at the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit of the University of Illinois Hospital as a Customer Service Assistant. My…

Many important life-changing decisions in my life have been made by others. As I have matured and gained more freedom, it is now time for me to make a life-changing decision of my own. The time to make the decision of which university I will choose to attend is rapidly approaching. This decision will change the entire course of my life by dictating the people I will meet, the knowledge I will learn, the disciplines I will instill in myself, and my future occupation. Both the University of Toledo…

Vanquishing AIDS/HIV: Olga Golichenko’s Side AIDS/HIV is a treacherous disease that has killed millions of people world-wide for decades due to lack of proper treatment funding and no available cure for the disease itself. A proposed financial tax, known as the “Robin Hood Tax”, could help in funding treatment and a cure for the disease (DeMoro, pg.11). This financial tax can not only help in the “[eradication] [of] HIV/AIDS and other global epidemics” but also improve global healthcare for…

HIV/AIDS PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES 2 HIV/AIDS Public Health Policies The devastating impact of HIV/AIDS is experienced throughout the world. In order to conduct an in-depth examination of public health policies regarding this disease, the nations of Egypt and Tanzania were selected. These nations were chosen as while they are both located in the continent of Africa, they possess dramatically different rates of occurrence of HIV/AIDS. The prevalence of HIV as the percent of…

effective drugs have been more effective in prolonging the lives of infected patients. The inhibitors block the viral enzyme protease, resulting in viral copies that cannot destroy/infect new cells (Fauci, 2003). These combination treatments decline AIDs incidence and mortality in the U.S. Although many medications are presented to infected patients, there’s still no cure for HIV and no vaccine against the virus (Kates, 2011). Berg (2010)…

There are three main criticisms: failure to coordinate aid, Africa’s increased dependence on aid, and the conditions set by funding agents on how African governments may allocate those funds (Knack, 2007). Independent aid agencies may cause problems for the receiving countries. For one, aid can lead to not only monetary dependence, but dependence on political assistance. African countries with poor governance may grow to…