receive it. Of those 40, eight were not in
school. Five of the eight said they would
return to school next semester, if they
received aid.
How many other students applied for
aid and because they did not receive it
not return to UNL is not known, Ritchie
said, but a study is planned to determine
this.
Next year, Ritchie said he expects
more students will be eligible for aid
through the new Basic Opportunity Grant
(BOG) program. This year the program
was limited to freshmen with a maximum
grant of $600 a student.
The new program will be open to any
student and will probably replace the
Supplemental Education Opportunity
Grant (SEOG), which helped low-income
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students.
In the BOG program, a student's
eligibility is determined by how much a
student's parents can aid the student. The
student then receives a voucher for the
amount of federal aid.
This means that more students will be
eligible, but that a student under BOG
will probably receive less money than
under SEOG, Ritchie said.
Many middle-income families are
finding it difficult to send their children
to college, Badersaid.
The middle income student can't
qualify for a grant as easily as a
low-income student, and his parents may
have difficulty getting a bank loan. What
is left in the college is the high and low
income students, Bader said.
Bader said that while he fears it is
possible that these students are being
priced out of college through financial aid
cutbacks and rising costs, he still believes
a college education is the best investment
available.
"An educated man is still needed and
still desired," he said.
Bader said another concern is that if
enrollment goes down as it has,
University funding may decrease through
cuts in programs and a loss of professors.
"It's degrading the quality when you
have to use substitutes (in programs), and
you have to fight like the deveil to keep
good professors. The danger is if we lose
the good professors (when there is a
cutback in funding new programs), you
end up with mediocrity," he said.
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