From the Eastern Echo, “Leaders break promise to Michigan students,” which is about students at EMU impacted by the political hot potato that is the Michigan Promise Scholarship program. Basically, as part of the ongoing budget mess in Michigan, where the Republicans want to cut the program and the Granholm and the Democrats don’t. Here are the opening paragraphs from the Echo article:
The Michigan Promise Scholarship, a valuable scholarship for students who scored well on their Michigan Merit Exam, was eliminated Friday, Oct. 30.
Cynthia Van Pelt, Eastern Michigan University’s Director of the Office of Financial Aid, was not surprised it was cut.
“The Michigan Promise was eliminated as it was included in the 2010 Michigan Budget discussions about budget cuts last winter. The cuts were made in order to reduce the State’s expenses.
The Governor still hopes to reinstate the Michigan Promise by funding it from another source but we have no further information on that at this time,” Van Pelt said.
According to the article, there’s about 1500 students at EMU getting Michigan Promise scholarships.
Does this mean they will have to quickly re-name it the “Michigan we’re Sorry Scholarship?”