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HRD-77-45 1 (1977-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabrx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUME 00136 - [A07512541] (The Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program at holliston Junior College]. B-164031(I); HED-77-45. February 15, 1977. 4 pp. Report to Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; by Gregory J. Ahart, Director, Human Resources Div. Issue Area: Education, Training, and Employment Erograms (1100). Contact: Human Resources Div. Budget Function: Education, Manpower, and Social Services- Research and General Education Aids (503). Organization Concerned: Department cf Labor; Eollistcn Junior Coll., MA; Massachusetts: Div. of Employment Security; Office of Education. Authority: Higher Education Act of 1965, s amended, title XV-A (20 U.S.C. 1070a.). Education Amendments of 1976 (P.L. 94-482). 45 C.F.R. 190.2(e). The Holliston Junior College Basic Educational Grant Program, which provides grants to needy ctudents enrolled in a special secretarial program, was reviewed in respo~se to charges of abuse of the program. Findings/Conclusions: As of June 1976, the ccllege bad awarded 248 Basic Grants, totaling about $238,000, to stvdents enrolled in what appeared to be an ineliqible secretarial program established in June 1975. Holliston introduced the special secretarial program to provide welfare mothers with a marketable skill. The failure of the progr; m to lead to a degree or certificate made the progran ineliqible. In addition, fror a program to be eliga'-le, it must be of aL least 6-months duratioL; a semester at liolliston was 15 weeks long. Holliston has changed the program to include 30 credit hours of study, which leads to a cwrtificate, and has made the program satijfy the 6-month criteria. Recommendaticns: The Office of Education should determine if the college circumvented the Basic Grant eligibility criteria and whether restitution should be made to the Federal Government. The Office of Education should also determine whether the changes made in the specia. secretarial program bring it into compliance with Basic Grant eligibility criteria. (SW)