The budget impasse continues on and Monetary Award Program grants for college students are still being held up as a result.
For the roughly 300 Knox College students who receive MAP grants, they didn’t find out until the last day of the fiscal year that they would receive the grants, the day the General Assembly passed a six-month stop-gap budget.
Knox notified those students that the school would cover grants they would have received if the funding didn’t come through.
The short term spending plan is winding down with no signs that a budget deal can be reached before the Dec. 31 deadline
Karrie Heartlein is Knox’s Officer for Government and Community Relations.
She tells WGIL that although MAP recipient students are registered for winter term classes the liberal arts school hasn’t decide what they will be able to do.
“So, we don’t really know whether there will be MAP money this coming year, even though those students have already been promised their MAP grant,” Heartlein says. “We don’t know as an institution what we’re going to be able to do at this time.”
Heartlein says that Knox students receive about $1.5 million in MAP funds a year.
Each student would expect to receive about $4,700.
