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Committee debates state grant parameter changes, tuition cap and AFR adjustments; colleges warn of disproportionate impacts
Summary
Conferees discussed proposed changes to state grant parameters — including a 1% tuition cap, a change to the living and miscellaneous expense allowance, and shifts to assigned family responsibility (AFR) calculations — and private colleges and conferees warned those changes could disproportionately affect dependent students and two-year colleges.
The conference committee on May 16 examined proposed changes to state grant parameters included in the Senate’s offer, and several conferees and institutional representatives warned the changes could reduce awards for particular student populations.
Allison Grubner, government relations director at the Private College Council, said the council is concerned with a Senate provision that would cap tuition increases at 1% for the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and argued this would distort grant…
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