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Education Department's 'Emergency' Request for Pell Grant Survey Is Denied

Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog

July 23, 2008

The White House's Office of Management and Budget has denied the Education Department's "emergency" request for approval to immediately survey Pell Grant recipients who have transferred from one institution to another. Several associations representing traditional colleges opposed the department's request and questioned both its motive in pursuing the survey and its rationale for treating the matter as an emergency.

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