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Students and donors press lawmakers to ban scholarship displacement
Summary
Witnesses at the committee hearing urged passage of HB 5,158 to stop colleges from reducing institutional aid when students receive private or public scholarships, arguing the practice undermines donors’ intent and leaves students with unchanged net aid.
At a public hearing Feb. 20, students, scholarship donors and higher‑education officials urged the committee to advance HB 5,158, which would restrict colleges from offsetting outside scholarships by reducing institutional grants or work‑study awards.
"Scholarship displacement occurs when a college reduces a student's financial aid by the same amount of that private or outside scholarship, leaving the students with little or no financial benefit from the award they earned," Elaine Mintz of the Fairfield…
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