Tuesday, June 26, 2001

Education Department Picks 10 More Projects for Pilot Program on Student Aid By DAN CARNEVALE Washington The U.S. Department of Education has announced the selection of 10 new projects for its Distance Education Demonstration Program, which is intended to make more financial aid available to students pursuing college degrees through distance learning. The program allows participating institutions to bypass some financial-aid requirements, including one that prohibits any college or university from distributing federal aid if it enrolls more than 50 percent of its students or offers more than 50 percent of its courses through distance education. Participating institutions will also be able to disregard a requirement that an academic year be 30 weeks long for a student to receive the maximum amount of financial aid. The program was begun in 1998, and this is the second and final group of projects selected to participate in it. Many of the projects involve more than one institution. The projects are: American Inter Continental University, in Atlanta. Brevard Community College, in Cocoa, Fla. Eastern Oregon University, in LaGrande. Iowa Regents Consortium, based in Iowa City (the consortium includes Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Missouri, and the University of Northern Iowa). JesuitNET, based in Washington (the consortium includes Fordham University, in New York; Georgetown University, in Washington; Loyola University Chicago, in Illinois; and the University of Detroit Mercy, in Michigan). Marlboro College, in Brattleboro, Vt. Regis University, in Denver. U.S. Sports Academy, in Daphne, Ala. University of Phoenix, in Phoenix. Walden University, in Minneapolis. Background article from The Chronicle: Colleges Picked for Project on Aid to Distance-Learning Students (7/9/1999) Easy-to-print version E-mail this article

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