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Tuskegee president warns Pell and parent/graduate loan cuts would shrink access, harm regional economy
Summary
Tuskegee University President Mark A. Brown told the Senate HELP Committee that reductions to Pell Grants or elimination of Graduate PLUS or Parent PLUS without alternatives would limit access to graduate and professional training and reduce the university's regional economic impact.
Mark A. Brown, president of Tuskegee University, told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions that Pell Grants and federal loan programs are essential to his campus and to the broader region's workforce.
"These programs are not luxuries, but necessities for our students," Brown said, describing how federal aid supports students in veterinary medicine, engineering and other critical fields and citing…
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