Wyoming Catholic College has announced that it will quit participating in the federal student-aid programs in order to avoid having to comply with federal regulations that it describes as burdensome and “clearly troubling for faith-based institutions.” The decision was unanimously approved last week by the college’s Board of Directors.
“By abstaining from federal funding programs,” the college’s president, Kevin D. Roberts, said in a news release, “we will safeguard our mission from unwarranted federal involvement—an involvement increasingly at odds with our Catholic beliefs, the content of our curriculum, and our institutional practices.”
The college offers several forms of student aid on its own, officials told KCWY-TV, an NBC affiliate in Wyoming. Those include merit scholarships, need-based grants, and student loans that carry a 6-percent interest rate, similar to the rate on federal loans.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/wyoming-catholic-college-drops-out-of-federal-student-aid-programs/94887
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