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University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1984
Commission says federal financial-aid process takes too long
By JAN SHARON
Staff Reporter
U. S. college students wait an unreasonable amount of time to receive financial aid because the federal government uses 143 steps to approve aid requests, the vice chairman of a finance commission on financial aid said yesterday.
But Dave Irwin, the vice chairman, said that students would receive aid more quickly if Congress approved recent recommendations made by the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance.
Irwin yesterday told about 150
financial aid officers at the spring conference of the Kansas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators that the commission had recommended that the government design a computer program to validate aid applications
'It would be easier for us to serve students if we had the opportunity.'
THE 12-MEMBER commission was created in 1980. Its members are appointed by the president, the speaker and chairperson, and a representative protempte of the U.S. Senate.
Jerry Rogers, KU financial aid director
Irwin, who is also the executive vice president of the Washington Friends of Higher Education, was appointed by Sen. Strom Thurmud, R.S.C., in 1800.
applications. He said the process could be expedited if university financial aid officers administered the national program.
During his presentation, Irwin also criticized the screening of Pell Grant
Applications for Pell Grants now go through a validation process at the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., to ensure that all information on the applications is correct, Irwin said.
If the applications have any mistakes, he said, they are sent to the
campus financial* aid office to be corrected. The office then asks students to correct the mistakes and to return the applications for further processing.
OCCCASIONALLY, other mistakes are found and the applications are returned to the campus offices, where they go through the same process all over again, he said.
Irwin said, "There is a great need to make sure the Pell Grants have some funding."
Jerry Rogers, KU financial aid director, said he thought that it would be a good idea for Pell Grants to be campus-based.
"It would be easier for us to serve students if we had the opportunity," he
So far this year, nearly 2,000 KU students have received a total of $2.9 million under the Pell Grant program.
IRWIN ALSO said that universities needed to spend some time in the next few years preparing for demographic changes in the student population.
By the year 1900, he said, 46 percent of secondary students will be minor-
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Irwin said it could take as long as three years before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate approves the commission's recommendations.
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