Clark Atlanta University, which is positioned simply west of the town’s downtown, mentioned in a information launch Friday that it had acquired a considerable quantity of assist from the federal authorities below the CARES Act Increased Schooling Emergency Aid Fund, which had allowed it to assist college students.
“We perceive these previous two tutorial years have been emotionally and financially tough on college students and their households as a result of Covid-19 pandemic. That’s the reason we’ll proceed to do all we are able to to assist their efforts to finish their CAU schooling,” President George T. French Jr. mentioned within the launch.
“Their tutorial {and professional} future is necessary to me and all the Clark Atlanta College household. We care about college students and need to lighten their particular person and household’s monetary load to allow them to proceed their journey in pursuing and attaining their instructional {and professional} targets.”
Other than tuition aid, Clark Atlanta College mentioned federal assist had allowed it to offer emergency monetary help, refund a pro-rated quantity of housing and meal expenses for spring 2020, buy 4,000 Dell laptops for each financially enrolled pupil, and purchase hotspots to offer college students with restricted or no web entry of their houses. The college had practically 4,000 college students as of 2019,
according to its website.
In a letter to Clark students announcing the move Thursday, French praised them for navigating their means by means of the devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Not for the reason that influenza pandemic of 1918 has our nation and the world skilled such repercussions of illness, debilitation, and loss of life,” he wrote. “I’m personally grateful on your resilience, perseverance, and ‘discover a means or make one’ attitudes.”
Clark Atlanta College is not the primary college to assist college students financially due to the pandemic.
In Might, Wilberforce College in Wilberforce, Ohio, introduced
it will cancel student debt for 2020 and 2021 graduates. The president of the traditionally Black college mentioned on the time that the entire quantity of cleared debt could be greater than $375,000.