Opinion: The Pell Grant is worth defending
There’s a lot of disagreement on higher education these days. One exception to all the discord, at least so far, is Pell Grants.
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Thomas P. Foley
Thomas P. Foley is the President of AICUP, the nonprofit Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania. Foley is a first-generation college graduate who relied on scholarships to attend school. In his decades of experience in education and policy, Foley served as a college president and was Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Labor and Industry.