By Amy Govert On Friday, November 3 a handful of individuals met with Steve Wilke, V ice-President of Enrollment Management, Planning, and New Programs , to discuss the future of the financial aid packages offered to Southwestern College students. The primary topic of discussion concerned the changes being made to the funding, in the form of Activity Grants, available to individuals participating in departmental activities during the 2001-2002 academic year. Paul Homan was also present for questions on behalf of the Admission Office. Many of our past students have told us about this problem and we felt it was time to do something. While the problem doesn t seem to have much affect on the general student population, there are about 20 individuals in each class who are currently receiving more than one activity grant.
Problems come with recruiting, rather than the current students.
This means, that they shouldn t lose any money because of the new policy. In fact, there is the possibility of getting more funding from the school. We did remove the caps in the recruiting of next year s students. Wilke further explained. What Wilke could not answer, however, was if the current Institutional Cap would be used in the process of granfathering out returning students.