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Amanda Mott
Director of News and Media
ammott@upenn.edu
Matthew Sessa talks about what students receiving financial aid can expect during this unprecedented time.
Financial Wellness at Penn has developed personal finance tips for students to help them stay on top of financial matters and asked Penn staff members what they wish they had known about finances.
Penn will provide undergraduate financial aid recipients with grants in 2020-21 to replace standard summer savings expectations, mitigating lost job opportunities due to COVID-19.
The University of Pennsylvania has announced admission decisions for Regular Decision applicants to the Class of 2024, the institution’s 268th class.
Staff in Residential Services, Student Registration and Financial Services, Student Intervention Services, Penn First Plus, Penn Global, and College Houses and Academic Services gathered to support students leaving campus and respond to Penn’s most vulnerable populations.
At its meeting today, the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees approved a 3.9% increase in tuition for the coming year, while also approving a record $256 million undergraduate financial aid budget, the largest financial aid budget in Penn’s history.
In her role in the Office of Student Financial Services, the recent graduate spearheads a new financial-literacy program that will offer workshops, financial-wellness grants for campus partners and student groups, and monthly lunch-and-learn sessions.
The gift from 1992 Penn graduates, Mindy and Jon Gray, supports undergraduate financial aid for students from New York City, and the Penn First Plus program for students who are low income and/or the first in their families to attend college.
Emily Kernan, executive director of The Penn Fund, discusses the mission of The Penn Fund and why donating is such a personally meaningful experience for many alumni.
Penn students and their scholarship donors joined on campus to celebrate the beauty of giving at the annual Scholarship Celebration.
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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