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Senate Appropriations Panel Approves Spending on Student Aid and NIH

Chronicle of Higher Education

July 29, 2010

Many campus-based student-aid programs would receive flat funds under the legislation, as would the Pell Grant program. That differs from the House version of the spending bill, which would supply about $5.7-billion more to the need-based aid program, to cover a budget shortfall, and would maintain the maximum Pell award at $5,550 in the fiscal year, which starts on October 1.

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