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Vol. I, No.1

INCREASED STUDENT FINANCIAL AID, BUT CHANGES IN PROCEDURES
The Georgia General Assembly adjourned on February 26 having increased student financial aid funds through expansion of existing programs and the establishment of an important new program of need-based financial aid for Georgia residents who are beginning education beyond high school.
~To supplement the federal Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program,
the legislature established a state student incentive scholarship program with an anticipated combined state and federal funding of $1.28 million for the 1974-1975 academic year.
5tThe state's two loan programs ... one allowing for repayment in service and the other requiring repayment in cash ...were merged.
~The tuition equalization grant program for Georgia residents attending private colleges and universities in the state was expanded.
~Continued support was given to the program of financial aid to dependents of law enforcement personnel killed or disabled in the line of duty.
~The largest single source of student financial aid in Georgia continues to be the group of commercial lenders participating in the guaranteed student loan program.
The condition of change certainly isn't new in the area of student financial aid. In fact, feeling confident in what to tell students about educational financial aid may well be an infrequent and rather fleeting sensation. Nevertheless, the changes in our programs are here, and we must deal with them.
Please, for a moment, suspend reality. Assume that the General Assembly says the Commission will have a certain amount of money for educational financial aid during a given fiscal year. Assume that the money is then delivered to the Commission office in several baskets, each with a different label. When a student asks for financial aid, the Commission evaluates eligibility based on his particular situation and decides if he is eligible to receive money from one of the baskets.
During the latest session of the General Assembly, the legislators not only increased the amount of money to be used for financial aid, but they added one basket and changed the labels on several others. Here's a preview of how the Commission's programs of student financial aid will operate for students planning to enter school this fall. Back to reality.
Student Incentive Scholarships
Last year the federal government began a program of Basic Educational Opportunity Grants designed to provide a base floor of financial aid to students with substantial need. During this past legislative session the Commission requested and was appropriated funds to establish the

second floor of aid to students with substantial need. Labeled the "state student incentive scholarships," the program is designed to provide nonrepayable scholarships to Georgia residents who demonstrate substantial financial need and who are attending collegiate or vocational postsecondary educational institutions in Georgia.
Details of the program will be forthcoming, but the legislation establishing the program sets certain guidelines concerning eligibility and amount. First, the applicant must demonstrate substantial financial need. No restrictions are placed on the applicant concerning field of study. The maximum amount which one student may receive for one academic year is $450.
Recognizing the limited availability of state and federal funds, the legislature provided for a phasing-in of the program: first-year fulltime students first, etc. It is estimated that only full-time firstyear students will receive aid for the 1974-1975 academic year.
Two loan programs merged
Service-cancellable financial aid, which in the past has come from the basket labeled "health career scholarships,!! will continue to be available to students in approved fields of study. However, the program has been merged with the state program of direct loans administered by the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Authority. Students preparing for careers in the approved fields of study, most of which contiue to be related to health care, will apply this year for direct guaranteed student loans through GHEAA. Recipients of the GHEAA loans who successfully complete courses of study in approved fields then have the opportuni-::y to cancel any financial obligation to the state by practicing their professions in an approved area of the state for a specified period of time.
Direct student loans with no restrictions on field of study will continue to be available to a very limited number of Georgia residents who are unable to obtain a guaranteed loan from a commercial lender. Designed as a backup source of aid for students, the direct student loan program received no new funds for the upcoming academic year. Therefore, it is anticipated that GHEAA will only be able to renew existing loans this year.
To summarize this merger of programs, let's go back to the baskets. The contents of two small baskets have been combined and placed in a larger one. From this source, an eligible applicant may obtain a direct student loan which may be repaid in one of two ways. If the student successfully completes his education and becomes a practicing professional in one of the approved occupational areas, he may repay his loan in service. Other students in fields of study not approved for repayment in service must repay the loan in cash at seven percent interest per year.
Tuition equalization grant program expanded
In the tuition equalization grant program, for Georgia residents attending private or independent colleges in Georgia, groundwork was laid for increasing the annual grant in the future, but funds were appropriated for continuation of the program at the $400-per-year-per-student level. For the first time since the beginning of the program, all undergraduate students at private colleges in the state who are residents of Georgia

will be eligible for the tuition equalization grant. During the 19751976 academic year and thereafter, graduate and professional students will also be eligible for the grants.
LEPD scholarship program continued
The law enforcement personnel dependents scholarship program for dependents of killed or permanently disabled policemen, firemen, prison guards and other categories of law enforcement personnel was given continued support by the legislators. Funds were appropriated for maintaining the program which provides non-repayable grants of $2000 a year to eligible students.
Commercial lenders remain Number One
Guaranteed student loans from commercial lenders remain the largest single source of student financial aid in the state, with loans totaling more than $9 million made during the 1973 fiscal year. While the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation administers the program, guarantees the loans and provides services to lenders, matters of policy in the program are largely determined by the United States Congress. "Student Aid Review" will continue to monitor the happenings in Washington and report all relevant revisions in the student guaranteed loan program. Changes are imminent:
In short, this spring and summer may be a little hectic if you're spending much time with matters of student financial aid. The Commission staff is working hard to ease the transition from last year's programs to the programs affecting this fall's students. But, your cooperation is also important if we are to successfully get the word out, get the applications in and disburse the aid which has been provided.
BASIC EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANT: WHERE DOES IT STAND?
According to the Student Financial Aid unit of the Region IV Office of Education, $475 million has been appropriated by Congress for the program of basic education opportunity grants to full-time students beginning their postsecondary educational programs after April 1, 1973.
The regional office estimates that grants for the 1974-1975 academic year will range from $50 to $800 for eligible applicants. Application forms for the approaching academic year generally will be available by midApril, and will automatically be mailed to postsecondary educational institutions and high schools.
The Office of Education also is planning training and informational workshops for secondary school personnel concerning the basic education opportunity grant proqram. The meetings are scheduled for early spring; potential participants will be notified of exact dates and locations.
ATTENTION, COUNSELORS: HEALTH CAREER SEMINARS
Each summer the State Scholarship Commission and the Medical College of Georgia cosponsor a series of three week-long seminars on careers related

to health care. Dates for the 1974 seminars are final and invitations will be issued to counselors, career exploration personnel and vocationaltechnical school personnel.
All three seminars are in July this summer, the first beginning on Monday, July 8. The second seminar will begin on Monday, July 15; the final seminar will begin on Monday, July 29.
During the five days on the Medical College campus in Augusta, seminar participants (approximately 20 at each seminar) will attend lectures by practicing and teaching health professionals. To complement the lectures and discussions, on-the-job visits are scheduled.
At the end of each seminar, participants complete an evaluation of the week. So far, those who have attended indicate considerable enthusiasm for the program and recommend it to their colleagues.
EAST GEORGIA OFFICE MOVED TO ATHENS
The east Georgia region now has a new career consultant and office location. Early this year, Mrs. Donna McAlister joined the Commission staff with responsibility for 23 counties in eastern Georgia. The address of her office (formerly in Augusta) is P.O. Box 8021, Athens 30601. Phone: (404) 549-4041.
TWO CAREER BROCHURES AVAILABLE
Brochures describing the opportunities of careers in physical therapy and in occupational therapy are now available from the State Scholarship Commission. Included in the one-page publication are descriptions of responsibilities, an outline of the required educational programs, and sources of further information. Copies may be obtained through the Career Service of the State Scholarship Commission, either from the staff of area career consultants or from the main office.
VETERINARY MEDICINE
During the recent session of the General Assembly, the field of veterinary medicine was designated as an occupational area for financial aid and repayment in service through the direct loan program of the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Authority.
Sponsors of the legislation cited a need for doctors of veterinary medicine, especially in rural areas of the state, and felt that including the field in the GHEAA program would encourage Georgia residents to pursue the educational program leading to a practice of veterinary medicine.
STUDENT AID REVIEW is published monthly by the State Scholarship Commission Donald E. Payton, Executive Director/David Tucker, Editor 9LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110 2187 Northlake Parkway Tucker, Georgia 30084

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Vol. I, No. 3

Getting ready for college or vocational school this fall will be a major summertime preoccupation for many students who are being graduated from high school this spring. Part of any student's gettingthings-together process should be his application for a Georgia Incentive Scholarship.

The GIS, designed to supplement the federally-supported Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, is administered by the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Authority, a companion agency of the State Scholarship Commission. With funds appropriated by the 1974 session of the Georgia General Assembly, GHEAA is implementing ... for the first time in Georgia ... a program of non-repayable financial assistance to Georgia residents who demonstrate substantial financial need. Funds received through the GIS program may be applied to the cost of attending approved postsecondary educational institutions in Georgia; there are no restrictions on field of study; and, no repayment is required.

Eligibility require~ents

Since the establishment of the GIS program in early 1974, the staff of the Authority has been working to develop the guidelines ... application process, eligibility requirements, application evaluation, etc ... as well as the tangible materials involved in implementing a student aid program. Eligibility requirements have been determined, and, for the first time in print, here they are:

1. The student must be a legal resident of Georgia for a minimum of 12 consecutive months iID~ediately preceding the date of registration for the school term for which a scholarship is being sought. (For example, if the student is applying for a GIS for an academic year beginning on September 15, 1974, he must have been a legal resident of Georgia since September 15, 1973.) "Legal resident" for purposes of obtaining the scholarship means a citizen of the United States who is domiciled in the State of Georgia.

2. The student must be enrolled in or accepted for admission by a Georgia postsecondary educational institution approved by GHEAA. Approved institutions are Georgia colleges, universities, state supported vocationaltechnical schools and accredited or approved non-profit hospital schools of nursing.

3. The student must be classified as an "undergraduate" student by the eligible educational institution; that is, the student must have never received a baccalaureate degree. No student can receive a grant for more than five academic years or after seven years from the date of the first GIS award.

An important note, however: Due to fund limitations, Georgia Incentive Scholarships for the 1974-1975 academic year will be awarded only to first-year students. "First-year student" is defined as any student

beginning his postsecondary education after April 1, 1974, unless the postsecondary education was remedial or preparatory in nature or was taken while the applicant was simultaneously enrolled in secondary school. (Veterans are exempt from this requirement.)
4. The student must be classified as a full-time student by the eligible educational institution or be registered for a minimum of 12 semester or quarter hours of credit or its equivalent.
5. The student must demonstrate substantial financial need as derived through a standardized needs analysis system which is discussed in detail below.
6. Students who are veterans will receive priority for special GIS funds appropriated on their behalf. To be eligible for priority status, veterans must (a) meet all GIS eligibility requirements except first year student status; (b) have been a resident of Georgia at the time of entry into military service; (c) have been in active military service for a period of one year (unless receiving a medical discharge for a lesser period), and (d) have received an honorable discharge.
The needs analysis
All aplicants for a GIS must submit a confidential financial statement annually as part of the application process. The scholarship award is based on each individual student's financial need in relation to his resources and to the cost of education. Therefore, the Authority requires applicants to complete a needs analysis financial statement to the College Scholarship Service so that the amount of each award can be determined.
The College Scholarship Service needs analysis system is a nationally recognized and accepted means of determining the ability of families to meet the costs of postsecondary education. GHEAA, along with most Georgia postsecondary educational institutions, uses the CSS needs analysis system as a tool to determine each student applicant's need for financial assistance. Under this system, each applicant is treated fairly and equitably.
A Student's Financial Statement (SFS) will be enclosed with each GIS applicatio~ form. A Parents' Confidential Statement (PCS) is also acceptable to GHEAA in place of the SFS.
If total family income is $6000 or more, the needs analysis financial statement must be mailed to the College Scholarship Service at the appropriate address with fees as directed on the form. In the proper section of the statement the applicant must enter "GEORGIA HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE AUTHORITY (0472)" so that GHEAA will receive a copy.
If total family income is less than $6000 annually, the student may mail the needs analysis financial statement directly to the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Authority for hand computation. This procedure is offered as a service to low-income students.

Scholarship amounts
GIS awards will range from a minimum of $150 to a maximum of $450 during the 1974-1975 academic year. Scholarships will be paid on a school-term basis and forwarded to the educational institution the recipient is attending. Students will be able to pick up their scholarship checks each term during the registration process.
Application forms for GIS will be available in early June and throughout the summer from the Authority office. Students may obtain an application packet by writing
GEORGIA INCENTIVE SCHOLARSHIP 9 LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110
2187 Northlake Parkway Tucker, Georgia 30084
Students in the Atlanta area may request an application packet by calling the Commission Information Office at 938-4444 between 8:00 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday.
Application forms also will be available from high school guidance offices and financial aid offices at all eligible Georgia colleges, vocational-technical schools and schools of nursing.
Deadline for filing a GIS application is September 1, 1974, or at least thirty days prior to the beginning date of any subsequent school term in the 1974-1975 academic year.
PRESIDENT MAKES IT OFFICIAL
On April 18, President Nixon signed into law legislation reopening the guaranteed student loan program to the segment of the population which the program was initially designed to be of primary assistance to. The new regulations will become effective on June 2 and will enable lending institutions to assist middle-income families without the requirement of a needs test.
Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation instructions for continued completion by all parties of its current OE 1260 form in addition to the application for loan ... pending issuance of a new merged application form ... have been distributed to all lenders and educational institutions.
Under the new law, students from families having an adjusted family income under $15,000 will again automatically be eligible for an interest subsidized loan of not more than the limits set by GHEAC: $1500 per academic year. Thus, the subsidized loan program is returned to the simpler loan program of prior years, with the $15,000 adjusted family income cutoff level.
An important feature of the current law retained in the new law will continue to enable students from families having an adjusted income of more

than $15,000 to qualify for an interest subsidized loan if the postsecondary educational institution recommends a subsidized loan for the student based upon family resources data submitted by the family. Therefore, families, particularly those with two or more children in
college, who have an adjusted family income of more than $15,000 will most likely be eligible to obtain a subsidized loan.

GASFAA OFFICERS FOR 1974-1975

The Georgia Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators held its seventh annual meeting at Rock Eagle near Eatonton on April 1-3. In addition to discussing various aspects of student financial aid, the association elected officers for the 1974-1975 academic year:

President Immediate Past President Vice Presidents
Secretary-Treasurer

Dean Dalton, Georgia State University Wayne Hopper, Dalton Junior College
Charles Edwards, Albany Junior College A. T. Flowers, Moultrie National Bank Martin McGirt, Valdosta State College S. C. Searl, Emory University '" .Cheryl Wilkes, Augusta College

BASIC EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANT: STATUS R-E-PO-RT- -II-I - - - - - - - - - - -
Although the Commission office has not yet received the first report of applications for the federal basic grant program made by Georgia students, it is anticipated that a significant number of the state's eligible residents are taking advantage of the student aid program.
Students who have begun, or will begin, their postsecondary education since April 1, 1973 should apply for a basic grant if they have not already done so. Applications should be available in high school guidance offices and public libraries.
within four weeks after the application has been fiied, the student should receive a Student Eligibility Report which will indicate the results of the basic grant application. When the choice of educational institution has been made, the SER should be submitted to the student financial aid office at the institution where the amount of the basic grant will be calculated.

STUDENT AID REVIEv] is published monthly by the State Scholarship Commission. Donald E. Payton, Executive Director/David Tucker, Editor 9 LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110 2187 Northlake Parkway Tucker, Georgia 30084

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~~~ENTIVE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD SYSTEM SELECTED

Vol. I, No. 6

On August 22 the Board of Directors of the Higher Education Assistance Authority adopted a method for apportioning available Georgia Incentive Scholarship funds among eligible students during the 1974-1975 academic year. After studying nine basic rationing approaches, the Board unanimously adopted a relative need approach designed to meet 30 percent of a student's unmet need based on a "cost of education" budget not to exceed that of the most expensive public college or university in the state. The Board, in addition, insured the integrity of the program of tuition equalization grants for Georgia residents attending private colleges and universities in the state by including a provision which excludes such grants in compiling the "student resources" budget ... a figure which is deducted from the student's cost of education budget in arriving at unmet need.

Let's go through that paragraph once more and look at some key words and several important concepts .

... available Georgia Incentive Scholarship funds ...

A total of $880,000 in state funds was appropriated by the Georgia General Assembly during the 1974 session for establishment of the Georgia Incentive Scholarship program. Georgia, the first state in the nation to sign an agreement with the federal government to participate in the federally supported state incentive grant program, has received $306,116 in federal funds. Therefore, $1,186,116 will be awarded to Georgia residents who want to attend school beyond high school but who lack the necessary financial resources.

A significant portion of the state funds ... $480,000 ... has been tagged to veterans priority. "Priority" means that veterans are not subject to one basic eligibility limitation ... that recipients be attending a postsecondary educational institution for the first time this year. Veterans may have attended college or vocational school prior to April 1, 1974, and still receive a GIS award if otherwise eligible .

... basic rationing approaches ...

The GIS program is intended to provide non-repayable assistance to citizens pursuing postsecondary education at the undergraduate level in Georgia in accordance with their individual need for financial assistance.

A uniformly acceptable method of determining financial need of a student is that of assessing the difference between the cost of education at the student's institution and non-institutional resources that are, or should be, available to the student for purposes of attending that institution. This basic concept, in one form or another, is used by most postsecondary educational institutions and most states in administering loan and scholarship financial aid funds.

Analyzing financial need, however, can produce a variety of results. For example, the need concept depends on the building of two types of budgets:

(1) the institutional cost of education budget and (2) the student resources budget. Student aid administrators sometimes use different approaches in building each of these budgets and, therefore, reach differing results.
After a student applicant's cost of education and his resources have been determined, then any deficit between resources and expenses is known as "need." Once a methodology for determining a student's need has been established, the administrator of funds must then decide on a method for rationing available funds among the pool of applicants which have been determined to have need for financial aid.
There is, perhaps, no limitation upon the number of alternative methodologies which might be developed for the purpose of rationing or distributing available dollars. The alternatives, however, will generally fall into one of two theories commonly referred to as being based on absolute need or relative need of students. Within each of these two general theories many variations may be developed, each having corresponding advantages, disadvantages and varying effects on students, institutions and the general public .
... approach designed to meet 30 percent of a student's unmet need ...
The approach adopted by the Authority is based on the theory of relative need rather than absolute need. Relative need in its purest theoretical form encompasses the actual cost of education a student must pay. These costs include tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, transportation and personal expenses.
The method established for GIS deviates from pure theory by using actual cost of tuition and fees, but standardized allowances for other cost items, and by putting a limitation on an applicant's cost of education budget. The maximum cost of education allowable under the GIS program will be that of the most expensive public institution as determined by data to be collected annually from educational institutions. The Authority established the maximum cost of education for 1974-1975 at $2550. Therefore, applicants attending higher cost institutions will be subject to the $2550 limitation.
Setting a maximum cost of education budget is a device used to better insure a widespread distribution of GIS funds ... to students in all types of educational programs, vocational to collegiate. It is estimated that approximately 4000 Georgia residents attending postsecondary educational institutions in the state will receive GIS grants averaging about $300 each. Awards will vary from $150 to a maximum of $450 per academic year. The estimated family income range of recipients is expected to be from $0 to $15,000 a year. Estimated average family income of recipients is expected to be about $8500 a year .
... insured the integrity of the program of tuition equalization grants ..
Limiting cost of education budgets to a particular level, such as $2550, is typical in many, and perhaps most, state and federal needs-based scholarship programs. Such limitations have the effect of giving priority to providing access to postsecondary educational institutions as opposed to providing complete freedom of choice among educational institutions. A total of 32 educational institutions in the state whose students are eligible to receive GIS awards have cost of education budgets which exceed the $2550 limit. These schools are primarily the state's private colleges and universities and the hospital schools of nursing. Their student body

population represents about 15 percent of the total student population eligible for GIS awards.
The Authority recognizes the tuition grant program established by the state legislature as being a form of equalization program designed in part to provide some measure of freedom of choice among students. Therefore, in order to preserve the soundness of the tuition grant program for the benefit of Georgia residents attending private institutions in the state, the Authority in establishing a maximum budget limit of $2550 also provided that the $400 tuition equalization grant not be included in the student resources budget under the GIS program. If a student at a private institution qualifies for a GIS award, that award will be made. The tuition grant will also be made to that student in the same manner as always. Tuition grants are available to all undergraduate students this academic year and to all undergraduate and graduate students next year. GIS awards are limited to first-time students this academic year.
Due to the time required to implement a new program statewide and develop the necessary systems required, the first GIS awards will not be made until mid-September. Applications received by the Commission office and processed within 60 days after the beginning of fall term at the applicant's institution will be considered for fall term aid. Eligible students should continue filing applications with the Authority. Future disbursements will be made prior to the beginning of each school term.
McCANTS JOINS COMMISSION STAFF
On September 1, Robert G. McCants joined the staff of the State Scholarship Commission as director of the Division of Career Services. McCants comes to the Commission office from the Georgia Department of Education where he was director of the Office of Teacher Certification.
The new director of Career Services holds a master of arts degree in health education from the University of Maryland and is currently working toward his doctoral degree in educational administration at Georgia State University. While he was at the Department of Education, McCants was responsible for administration of the teacher's scholarship program and career opportunities programs.
The division of Career Services maintains a staff of six career consultants based over the state. These consultants, under the supervision of McCants, meet with high school students, counselors and career exploration personnel to discuss the state's programs of financial aid. Expansion of the division to include a health careers placement function is underway.
CAREER SEMINARS ARE SUCCESSFUL ... FOR THE FOURTH TIME
The fourth annual series of Health Careers Seminars cosponsored by the State Scholarship Commission and the Medical College of Georgia was conducted during July and August. And, according to the 60 student advisers attending the sessions, the program was again successful.
"If I were to grade this seminar, my grade would be 'excellent,'" said one guidance counselor of the week-long workshop. Another participant decided that "the seminar was more beneficial than the two graduate courses I took

this summer."
The three seminars, each with approximately 20 counselors, health occupations teachers and other student advisers in attendance, were coordinated by MCG's Division of Student Affairs by the division's assistant coordinator of undergraduate admissions, Elizabeth Griffin. MCG faculty and staff served as lecturers and on-the-site experts during tours of the various health-care and educational facilities on the Augusta campus.
More than 200 secondary school personnel have attended the Health Careers Seminars since 1970. Again this year the participants unanimously indicated that attending the sessions would be a worthwhile experience for all student advisers.
PROBE SESSIONS BEGIN THIS MONTH
Twenty-two regional fairs and 13 counselor workshops are included in this fall's schedule of Probe Sessions. Probe, an effort by college, vocational school, nursing school and high school personnel to coordinate the distribution of information on postsecondary education to high school students, begins on September 30. And the State Scholarship Commission will be there to talk with students, parents and counselors about financial aid for higher education.
Probe's governing body, the Georgia Education Articulation Committee, has developed something new for the sessions this year: a $100 scholarship will be awarded at each session to a student who plans to begin postsecondary education at an institution participating in Probe by the winter term of 1976. The scholarship awards will be administered by the State Scholarship Commission.
Registration cards will be provided at each session and the State Scholarship Commission will supervise collection of cards and the drawing of the winner. So, encourage your students to stop by the Commission exhibit, find out about Georgia's programs of financial aid and register for the GEAC scholarship.
STUDENT AID REVIEW is published monthly by the State Scholarship Commission Donald E. Payton, Executive Director/David Tucker, Editor 9 LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110 2187 Northlake Parkway Tucker, Georgia 30084

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Vol. I, No.7

The final link in the State Scholarship Commission's chain of health career activities is almost in place. With support from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Commission is designing a model for placing graduates of health-care training programs in employment sites in rural areas of the state.

Under the direction of the Commission's Division of Career Services, the recruitment and placement project began functioning in early September. Division director Robert McCants and project coordinator Phillip Cover initiated the project's collection of manpower data and population statistics.

Seventy-seven counties in the state, all with a population of less than 25,000 persons and having a hospital located in the county, received invitations to apply for participation in the project. More than half of the counties contacted have responded positively to the invitation.

Service to students and to communities

The recruitment and placement project is designed essentially as a service to graduating health-care specialists seeking employment and to community health systems seeking competent health-care personnel. The project is limited to include ten disciplines allied to health care: dentistry, dental hygiene, medical technology, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, radiologic technology, and respiratory therapy.

Twenty communities within the 77 counties will be selected to- articipate in the project based on manpower needs and the degree of i~ter st expressed by community leaders. The project will be a link Bet~een the community and the health-care specialist seeking employment. rTha Commission will provide information, recruitment, placement and follow-up services.

Information service

As a service to students, educational institutions, and communities in Georgia, the Commission will be a resource for information regarding potential health employees, educational training programs, specific manpower needs, available financial assistance, health career information and community health needs.

Recruitment service

Graduating health-care specialists will have the opportunity to work directly with the regional career consultants of the State Scholarship Commission in assessing potential employment opportunities within the 20 selected communities. The career consultants will provide the mechanism for the health specialist to receive direct exposure to areas exhibiting manpower shortages.

Placement service

Under the sponsorship of the Commission, the community will provide an orientation program allowing for direct exposure to the community, onsite visits, acquaintance with health facilities and, when possible, some on-the-job experience.

Accompanying employment, the State Scholarship Commission, in cooperation with the community health agencies and educational institutions, will seek to develop a team of consultants who will be available for consultation as needed by newly employed personnel.

Vital to the success of the project is the willingness of each community to develop incentives which will attract graduates from the allied health sciences to seek employment in their areas. Communities will have been selected by the end of October based on (1) manpower shortages, (2) willingness to provide a representative to help meet objectives of the project and (3) provision of a program orienting potential employees to the community and its health-care facilities.

Advisory committee

Providing guidance and advice for the project staff will be a committee of persons representing areas such as education, facility administration, and health-care professior-s. Fourteen persons have agreed to serve on the advisory committee:

John Godwin, M.D George Owen Jack deJarnet William T. Johnson, D.D.S Damon King Katherine Pope David Glazer Nancy Prigmore Ann Shedden Paul Vail, Ph.D Billie W. Wickliffe, Ph.D Judy Williams Pat Yarborough Mary Elizabeth Milliken, Ph.D

St. Joseph's Infirmary, Atlanta Georgia Hospital Association
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta Georgia Department of Human Resources Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon Statewide Master Planning for Nursing
Emory University, Atlanta Georgia State University, Atlanta Memorial Medical Center, Savannah
Georgia Department of Education University of Georgia, Athens
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta Georgia State University, Atlanta
University of Georgia, Athens

TUITION GRANT PROGRAM CONTESTED IN COURT
A suit was filed on October 8, 1974, in the Superior Court of Fulton County contesting the constitutionality of the Georgia Tuition Grant program for students attending private colleges in Georgia.
The suit was served on the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Authority on October 15, 1974, and contends that the Georgia statute providing for payment of a $400 grant per academic year to Georgia residents attending private colleges and universities in the state violates the Establishment Clause of the First Admendment to the Constitution of the United States and is, therefore, unconstitutional, null and void.
Plaintiffs in the suit are Americans United for the Separation of Church

and State, by and through Dick H. Hall, Jr., Southern Regional Director, Jesse G. Moore and George I. Martin.
Defendents named in the suit are the Georgia Higher Education .~ssistance Authority and Donald E. Payton, Executive Director of the Authority. Defendents in the suit will be represented by the Attorney General of Georgia.
Accompanying the suit, a court order temporarily restraining and enjoining the Authority from making further disbursements of tuition grant payments for the present 1974-1975 academic year, was signed on October 8 by Judge Charles A. Wofford, Superior Court of Fulton County. On October 17, the order was vacated by Judge Sam Phillips McKenzie, Superior Court of Fulton County, to whose non-jury calendar the case has been assigned.
Upon advice of counsel, Assistant Attorney General David Dyson, and with the concurrence of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Authority, Dr. Carey T. Vinzant and Judge William Ingram, the Authority is not now restrained from administering the program nor from disbursing further tuition grant payments to students. It might reasonably be anticipated, however, that the plaintiffs will attempt, in the near future, to obtain a new court order restraining disbursement of tuition grant funds.
Similar suits against similar programs have arisen in other states with varying results. Those suits often turned upon a question of state law. Some suits are still being litigated in other states.
"The suit filed against the Georgia program," explained Payton, "raises only a question of federal law under the United States Constitution. I am advised by our attorneys that the united States Supreme Court has never issued a definitive opinion on the issue raised in the suit filed against the Imthority and myself."
FIRST GIS AWARDS MADE
The first award notifications for the new Georgia Incentive Scholarship program have been made. During the summer and early fall, more than 3000 applications for aid were received by the Authority office. Applications received after the end of November will be considered for aid begining with winter quarter of 1975.
All checks issued to students for fall quarter should be distributed to the student recipients. The policy for returning checks to the Authority is detailed in the complete set of regulations distributed to educational institutions earlier this month. Generally, however, a check should be returned to the Authority if (1) the student is on probation, (2) the student is not enrolled, or (3) the student has enrolled for less than a full-time load. Complete guidelines begin on page 13 of the regulations.
STATE DIRECT LOk~ DISBURSEMENTS .MADE
Authority checks for loan assistance offered through the state direct student loan program for students in health-care and general study areas have been distributed ... at a date much later than we had anticipated.
Due to the consolidation of the direct loan program for students in general

studies and for students in health-care areas, new programs for computerized check disbursement had to be designed. The Authority had been given a commitment that the new programs would be functioning no later than August 15. The system, however, did not become fully operational until September 14. Hereafter, distribution of both direct loan and GIS checks should routinely occur prior to each school term.

SEE YOU AT PROBE FAIRS AND WORKSHOPS

The State Scholarship Commission continues to participate in the Probe Counselor Workshops and the Probe Regional Fairs throughout Georgia. At each fair, the Georgia Education Articulation Committee, sponsors of Probe, award a $100 scholarship to a student whose name is drawn. Registration for the scholarship is at the State Scholarship COIDIDission's exhibit.

The schedule for the remainder of the events looks like this:

October 30
November 6 November 7
November 11 November 12
November 13 November 14

Macon Counselor Workshop, Sheraton Motor Inn Macon Regional Fair, Macon Coliseum
Valdosta Regional Fair, Valdosta City Auditorium Albany Counselor Workshop, Downtowner Motor Inn Albany Regional Fair, Downtowner Motor Inn Douglas Regional Fair, National Guard Armory Waycross Counselor Workshop, Waycross YMCA Waycross Regional Fair, Waycross YMCA Brunswick Regional Fair, Brunswick Mall
Savannah Counselor Workshop, Gateway Sheraton Motor Inn Savannah Regional Fair, Oglethorpe Mall

A RESOURCE
"How to Pay for Your Health Career Education: A Guide for Minority Students." A 12-page booklet containing information on health career education, educational expenses and financial aid programs. Should be available from the Bureau of Health Resources Development, Health Resources Administration, U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. It's DHEW Publication No. (HRA) 74-8. No price is indicated on the publica+_'lone

STUDENT AID REVIEW is published monthly by the State Scholarship Commission Donald E. Payton, Executive Director/David Tucker, Editor 9 LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110 2187 Northlake Parkway Tucker, Georgia 30084

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November 25, 1974

Vol. I, No.8

DIRECT STUDENT LOAN FUNDS COMMITTED
More than 1800 Georgia residents attending college, vocational school or nursing school are receiving direct student loans through the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Authority. All funds in all fields of study have been committed. Nursing students have been placed on a waiting list in case of cancellations.
The majority of student recipients ... almost 1400.:.are enrolled in courses of study leading to careers allied to health care. Seventy-four percent of the recipients are enrolled in nursing school preparing to become licensed practical nurses, registered nurses and nurse anesthetists.
The most recently eligible field of study, veterinary medicine, has 14 recipients for the 1974-1975 academic year. Medical technology is second to nursing in the number of students receiving loans.
Recipients of direct student loans in critical health career fields cancel their repayment obligation by practicing their profession in an area of Georgia one calendar year for each year of financial assistance. Many students who have been awarded aid through the program since its beginning in 1965 are now working here in Georgia and providing the health care that is needed by the citizens.
The remaining small amount of the direct student loans were made to students who have found it impossible to obtain a guaranteed student loan from a commercial lending institution. No restrictions are made on field of study.
The average loan for the 1974-1975 academic year is $1000, with graduate and professional students receiving as much as $2000 for the year. By the middle of November, approximately $2 million had been invested in the educational training of Georgia residents through the direct student loan program for the current academic year.

STATUS REPORT: GEORGIA INCENTIVE SCHOLARSHIPS
All complete Georgia Incentive Scholarship applications received by the State Scholarship Commission office have been evaluated. Of the 3400 students filing applications, approximately 1760 have been awarded aid through the new non-repayable grant program; 500 have been denied. About 1200 students' applications were not accompanied by financial statements and cannot be evaluated at this time.
Students sending copies of a needs analysis to the Commission office but not filing an application for financial aid have been notified that

funds for winter quarter or semester are available through the GIS program.
Students who are attending college, vocational school or nursing school at one of the 97 participating postsecondary educational institutions in Georgia for the first time this academic year may be eligible for up to $450 a year through the GIS program. High school students who graduate at the end of fall quarter and will be entering postsecondary education in January should file a GIS application. Applications should be available in high school guidance offices or from the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Authority.
NEW CONSULTANTS FOR EAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
On November 1 Clark Lewis moved from the Commission's Southwest Georgia office in Valdosta to the East Georgia office in Athens. A member of the staff of the Career Services division for almost two years, Lewis assumes responsibility for working with students, counselors and institutional aid officers in 23 counties from Jackson County on the north to Emanuel County on the south.
Based in the Clarke County Board of Education Building, Lewis has begun to make initial contacts in the East Georgia area. Lewis is a native of Griffin and a graduate of the University of Georgia.
Replacing Lewis in Valdosta is Lynn Hodge, a native of Valdosta. With responsibility for 24 counties, Hodge will be based in the nursing building at Valdosta State College, her alma mater. Having graduated from VSC in 1970 with a major in speech and drama, Hodge earned a master of arts degree in speech communication from the University of Georgia in 1972.
The new career consultant held an assistantship while in graduate school at the University of Georgia and, for the past two years, has worked for United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Atlanta where she was assistant executive director. She has organized fund raising events, and coordinated major public education efforts related to the understanding and care of the multiple-handicapped.
A FULL STAFF
Clark Lewis' move to Athens and the addition of Lynn Hodge to the staff of the Commission's Career Services division means that there is now a full staff of six career consultants. A resource for students and student advisers, the consultants speak to groups and work with individual students as they consider careers in health care or as they plan their postsecondary education and the assistance which may be necessary to finance their educational programs.
On page three of the "Student Aid Review" are listed all six career consultants and the counties which they serve.

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State Scholarship Commission

Baldwin

Hancock

Monroe

Division of Social Sciences

Bibb Bleckley

Harris Houston

Montgomery Muscogee

Macon Junior College Macon, Georgia 31206

Chattahoochee Jasper

Peach

Clay

Johnson

Pulaski

Crawford

Jones

Putnam

Stewart

Telfair

Webster

Crisp

Laurens

Quitman

Sumter

Treutlen

Wheeler

Dodge

Macon

Randolph

Talbot

Twiggs

Wilcox

Dooly

Marion

Schley

Taylor

Washington Wilkinson

East Georgia

Barrow Burke Clarke Columbia Elbert Emanuel Glascock

Greene Jackson Jefferson Jenkins Lincoln Madison McDuffie

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State Scholarship Commission

Morgan

C/O Clarke County Board of Education

Oconee

P. O. Box 1706

Oglethorpe

Athens, Georgia 30601

Richmond

Screven

Taliaferro

Warren

Walton

Wilkes

Metro Atlanta and surrounding counties

Wi11iam Bo1tman

9 LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110

Butts

Douglas

Lamar

2187 Northlake Parkway

Carroll

Fayette

Meriwether

Tucker, Georgia 30084

Clayton

Fulton

Newton

Cobb

Gwinnett

Pike

Coweta

Heard

Rockdale

Troup

Dekalb

Henry

Spaulding

Upson

North Georgia

Banks Bartow Catoosa Chattooga Cherokee Dade Dawson

Fannin Floyd Forsyth Franklin Gilmer Gordon Habersham

Hall Haralson Hart Lumpkin Murray Paulding Pickens

Michae1 Shinall 9 LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110
2187 Northlake Parkway Tucker, Georgia 30084

Polk Rabun Stephens Towns

Union Walker White Whitfield

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Appling Atkinson Bacon Brantley Bryan Bulloch Camden

Candler Charlton Chatham Clinch Coffee Effingham Evans

Glynn Jeff Davis Liberty Long McIntosh Pierce Toombs

Tattnall Ware Wayne

Shir1ey Johnson Savannah State College
P. O. Box 20526 Savannah, Georgia 31405

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Baker Ben Hill Berrien Brooks Calhoun Colquitt
Cook

Decatur Dougherty Early Echols Grady Irwin
Lanier

Lee Lowndes Miller Mitchell Seminole Terrell
Thomas

Lynn Hodge Valdosta State College Room 324 Nursing Building Valdosta, Georgia 31601
Tift Turner Worth

TWENTY COUNTIES SELECTED FOR PLACEMENT PROJECT
Twenty counties in Georgia have been selected to participate in the model health-care recruitment and placement project coordinated by the State Scholarship Commission. (See "Student Aid Review," October 25, 1974.) With support from the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
the Commission is designing a system for placing the graduates of health-care training programs in employment sites in rural areas of the state. Under the direction of the Commission's Career Services division, the recruitment and placement project began functioning in early fall.
Seventy-seven counties in the state, all with a population of less than 25,000 persons and having a hospital located in the county, received invitations to apply for participation in the project. From these 77 initial contacts, the staff of the project chose the following counties: Burke, Camden, Cook, Crisp, Decatur, Dooly, Emanuel, Gordon, Jefferson, Jenkins, Liberty, Marion, Meriwether, Stephens, Taylor, Treutlen, Upson, Washington, Wilkinson and Worth.
The project staff, in cooperation with representatives from each of the counties, is working to develop methods for attracting graduates of health-care training programs to rural areas of the state where manpower shortages are severe. The project includes students in ten disciplines: dentistry, dental hygiene, medical technology, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, radiologic technology and respiratory therapy.
Joining the project's advisory committee since the previous issue of "Student Aid Review" is Felton H. Gordon, Administrative Director/PR Counsel of the Georgia Optometric Association in Atlanta.
STUDENT AID REVIEW is published monthly by the State Scholarship Commission. Donald E. Payton, Executive Director/David Tucker, Editor 9 LaVista Perimeter Park, Suite 110 2187 Northlake Parkway Tucker, Georgia 30084