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Need Money For College? Apply To The Oregon Promise Grant Before June 1! - 05/09/18

The Oregon Promise Grant just became more accessible for current and potential students of Mt. Hood Community College.

The Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC), Office of Student Access and Completion (OSAC), recently announced that more students who attend or plan to attend MHCC are eligible for the 2018-19 Oregon Promise. OSAC has eliminated the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) limit, meaning all eligible applicants will receive the grant. Additionally, OSAC has stated that students who were ineligible for the 2017-18 Oregon Promise due to EFC limits will be considered for the 2018-19 grant.

Eligible first-time applicants for the Oregon Promise must begin their studies at MHCC or another Oregon community college in 2018-19. Students who received the grant in 2017-18, or who were deemed ineligible due to the EFC limit, must have attended an Oregon community college in the fall, winter and spring of 2017-18, and meet other criteria, to receive the grant in fall 2018-19. Students who graduate from high school or complete their GED between March 1 – June 30 must apply for Oregon Promise by June 1 to be eligible.

Now in its second year of awarding, Oregon Promise is a state-funded grant that helps recent high school graduates and GED recipients pay for community college tuition. In 2017-18, due to budgetary constraints, the HECC limited Oregon Promise Grant eligibility to students based on their family contribution capabilities, or EFC. For the upcoming 2018-19 academic year, the HECC is removing this temporary EFC limit and funding all eligible recipients, as was originally designed in the 2015 legislation that established the Oregon Promise program. The HECC is able to make this adjustment based on expenditures during the first year of the 2017-19 biennium, and the most recent projections of expenditures for 2018-19.

In subsequent years, the HECC will continue to have the authority established by the Oregon Legislature in 2017 (Senate Bill 1032) to apply an EFC limit as necessary when state funding levels are insufficient for this program, so students and families are encouraged to check the program website the year they apply.

For more information about 2018-19 awarding for Oregon Promise Grant, visit oregonstudentaid.gov/oregon-promise.aspx

Or visit https://youtu.be/8nBuQonDGZ0 to view our video on the Oregon Promise Grant.

Attached Media Files: Apply to the Oregon Promise Grant!,

Need Money For College? Apply To The Oregon Promise Grant Before June 1! - 05/09/18

The Oregon Promise Grant just became more accessible for current and potential students of Mt. Hood Community College.

The Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC), Office of Student Access and Completion (OSAC), recently announced that more students who attend or plan to attend MHCC are eligible for the 2018-19 Oregon Promise. OSAC has eliminated the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) limit, meaning all eligible applicants will receive the grant. Additionally, OSAC has stated that students who were ineligible for the 2017-18 Oregon Promise due to EFC limits will be considered for the 2018-19 grant.

Eligible first-time applicants for the Oregon Promise must begin their studies at MHCC or another Oregon community college in 2018-19. Students who received the grant in 2017-18, or who were deemed ineligible due to the EFC limit, must have attended an Oregon community college in the fall, winter and spring of 2017-18, and meet other criteria, to receive the grant in fall 2018-19. Students who graduate from high school or complete their GED between March 1 – June 30 must apply for Oregon Promise by June 1 to be eligible.

Now in its second year of awarding, Oregon Promise is a state-funded grant that helps recent high school graduates and GED recipients pay for community college tuition. In 2017-18, due to budgetary constraints, the HECC limited Oregon Promise Grant eligibility to students based on their family contribution capabilities, or EFC. For the upcoming 2018-19 academic year, the HECC is removing this temporary EFC limit and funding all eligible recipients, as was originally designed in the 2015 legislation that established the Oregon Promise program. The HECC is able to make this adjustment based on expenditures during the first year of the 2017-19 biennium, and the most recent projections of expenditures for 2018-19.

In subsequent years, the HECC will continue to have the authority established by the Oregon Legislature in 2017 (Senate Bill 1032) to apply an EFC limit as necessary when state funding levels are insufficient for this program, so students and families are encouraged to check the program website the year they apply.

For more information about 2018-19 awarding for Oregon Promise Grant, visit oregonstudentaid.gov/oregon-promise.aspx

Or visit https://youtu.be/8nBuQonDGZ0 to view our video on the Oregon Promise Grant.

Attached Media Files: Apply to the Oregon Promise Grant!,