Essays on Pell Grant

Introduction

A strategic plan is contextually defined as a piece of documentation that describes an organization’s process of foreseeing an anticipated future, the details of which are then delineated into goals and a vision for the organization. A strategic plan also includes an explication of how to achieve the stipulated goals, in a specific and concise manner. Steiner (2008) calls strategic planning an “indispensable act” in endeavor for high quality management of any institution. A subset of strategic planning is strategic management, which essentially offers guidance as well as direction as far as strategic planning at organization level is ...

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Executive Summary The University of Maryland is considered as one of the best public universities in the United States. However, the rising cost of tuition fees and other charges has placed public institutions in an awkward situation making it questionable if whether they can provide affordable and quality education in the face of the current economic hardships. Students, on the other hand, could not help but seek for various loans in order to make their way through college. For most families who are earning a median income, sending a single child in college would leave them financially unstable ...

Pell Grant Program policy offers a grant available to eligible undergraduate students who must not have earned a bachelor’s degree, to pay for their education after high school. It is limited to students with financial needs. It was named after U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, though it was originally known as the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant. It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education which determines the student’s financial need. Often the grant is limited to fifty percent of the student’s educational and related expenses. Unlike loans, grants do not have to be repaid. In ...