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Students, foundations and donors press Connecticut to bar scholarship displacement; private colleges urge caution over state funds timing
Summary
Testimony for raised bill/SB 1112 focused on banning scholarship displacement—where external scholarships reduce institutional aid—citing unfairness for students and donors; private colleges warned the bill could disrupt state Roberta Willis allocations and force earlier reductions in initial aid offers.
A panel of students, scholarship providers and university officials told the Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee about competing approaches to scholarship displacement and why the committee should weigh a statutory ban carefully.
Mona Lucas, assistant vice president for enrollment policy and strategic initiatives at the University of Connecticut, said UConn supports raised bill 1112, which would prohibit institutions from reducing a student’s institutional aid solely because the student receives an external scholarship. Lucas framed the change as consistent with affordability goals and said UConn’s long-standing practice is to apply outside aid toward unmet financial need rather than reduce core institutional support.
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