financial aid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of financial aid
First recorded in 1770–80, for an earlier sense
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The school also noted it didn’t increase its undergraduate tuition for the 2026-2027 academic year and that it recently expanded its financial aid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Roughly 0.3% of students receiving federal financial aid are in failing bachelor’s-degree programs and 0.2% of student loan volume is in these programs, according to PEER.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The enrollment process needs to be examined, she said, to ensure students are not “being lost between application, financial aid, counseling, registration and their first day of class.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“We’re expecting another record-breaking year where more people are going to need help,” said Perkin Simpson, chief executive of Generation Power CT, a Connecticut nonprofit that provides financial aid for heating oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I thought they had great financial aid there.”
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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