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Hope -- Georgia's Free College Education Program |
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Susan Aaron |
In 1993,
Georgia inaugurated the Hope Scholarship and Grant
Programs, providing residents with very low-cost
schooling at Georgia's public colleges, universities and
technical schools. Since then, several other states have
also instituted so-called "merit-based" scholarships for
public post-secondary education. MonsterLearning spoke
with Bill Flook, Director of the Scholarship Grants
Division for the Georgia Student Finance Commission to
learn more about Georgia's program.
MonsterLearning: What are the Hope
Scholarship and Grant programs?
Bill Flook: Think of them as two
programs put together.
People are eligible for the Hope Scholarship if they
graduated from a Georgia high school with a B average
and they maintain a B average in college. It pays all
the tuition at a Georgia public institution, all
mandatory fees and $300 per academic year toward books.
Qualifying students can also attend a private college in
Georgia and receive a flat award of $3,000 a year. The
program's Goals are to encourage students to work harder
in high school, thus raising academic standards at the
high school level, and to encourage those students to go
to school here in Georgia, making Georgia colleges
academically ber.
The Hope Grant is available to any resident of Georgia
attending one of our 33 public technical colleges
seeking a technical diploma or certificate. It doesn't
matter when you graduated from high school, your grade
point average in high school or the rest of your
educational background. You could have a master's degree
or a PhD. None of that matters as long as you're a
resident of Georgia. The grant benefit is exactly the
same as for the scholarship.
ML: What makes someone eligible for the
Hope Grant?
BF: Eligibility begins when you've been
a resident of Georgia for at least 12 months. You could
be 50 years old and have lived in Pennsylvania all your
life. If you move to Georgia and become a legal resident
for 12 months, you can go to the local technical college
and seek a technical diploma or certificate in
photography, carpentry or whatever you'd like to study,
and you can earn as many of those certificates or
diplomas as you'd like.
ML: Do only high school seniors of
traditional age (late teens) qualify for the Hope
Scholarship?
BF: Students who graduated from a
Georgia high school in 1992 or thereafter with a B
average are eligible for the Hope Scholarship regardless
of when they begin college. If in 30 years they decide
they want to start college, the Hope Scholarship would
still be available to them.
Students who graduated from high school before 1992,
graduated from high school in another state, or
graduated in 1992 (or after) without a B average, can
still become eligible for the Hope Scholarship if they
go to college for one year and earn a 3.0 average. The
Hope Scholarship then becomes available for their
sophomore, junior and senior years.
ML: The Hope Program was designed, in
part, to benefit business in Georgia. How does that
work? BF: Companies benefit from the
Hope Program in two ways. It means companies located
here can tell an employee that if their children
graduate with a B average they can get Hope benefits. In
addition, companies know they can train and retrain
their employees here and have the costs covered by Hope.
Betting on Hope
While the cost of this program may seem like a gamble,
Georgia's Hope Scholarships and Grants are funded by the
state's lottery, and according to Flook, "We're in our
10th year and haven't had any problems."
Since the Hope program started, other states have also
begun merit-based programs aimed at enhancing
educational quality and attracting businesses.
If states begin competing for educated workers by
underwriting more of the cost of their education,
perhaps those soaring costs will become less of a
headache for students and employers. Until then, find
out where your state stands on merit-based scholarships.
Or consider moving -- the weather's pretty nice in
Georgia.
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