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Minn. Office of Higher Education details grants, enrollment gains and strains on state grant and North Star Promise
Summary
Commissioner Dennis Olsen and agency managers summarized competitive grants, loan-repayment programs and state financial aid, reporting enrollment gains after FAFSA disruption and warning of strain on the Minnesota State Grant and North Star Promise programs.
Commissioner Dennis Olsen of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education told the House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee that the agency’s portfolio of competitive grants and state financial-aid programs is expanding while demand pushes strain onto the state grant and new North Star Promise programs.
The Office of Higher Education (OHE) presented results and program details across a wide set of initiatives: a student-parent support competitive grant ($5.3 million awarded to 13 organizations), the spinal cord and traumatic brain injury research grants (19 projects awarded in the most recent round, totaling about $30,000,000), dual training grants (about $5.4 million awarded to 84 Minnesota employers for related instruction), and a new Inclusive Higher Education grant (Lake Superior College awarded $200,000). Megan Fitzgibbon, manager of grants and workforce initiatives, described program goals and recent award totals.
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