Through
4/26
The University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees approved a record $237 million financial aid budget, an increase of 5.25 percent and the largest financial aid budget in Penn’s history.
When Amy Gutmann was appointed president of the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, only one in 20 students at Penn identified as the first in their families to attend college.
Amanda Mott
Director of News and Media
ammott@upenn.edu
Next year Penn will release its findings on a guaranteed income program designed for the formerly incarcerated in Gainesville, Florida.
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According to a Penn study, individual donations fell about 4.5 % during the pandemic, but the average amount of each gift surged more than 200%.
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A 2022 report from Penn estimated that student loan forgiveness could cost the federal government around $1 trillion.
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Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law explains why borrowers shouldn’t expect Biden’s new student loan forgiveness relief to be as sweeping as previous attempts.
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The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that the Save student loan repayment plan will cost as much as $558 billion over a 10-year period.
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Katherina Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice discusses progress in the quest to identify meaningful metrics of nonprofit performance, such as SP2’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy.
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