Graduating students walk in the processional to the 123rd annual commencement for Southern Utah University in Cedar City on Friday, April 19, 2022. As the Biden administration ponders student loan forgiveness, Dartmouth College will eliminate student loans from financial aid packages for undergraduate students, extending more grants instead.
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As the Biden administration ponders student loan forgiveness, Dartmouth College will eliminate student loans from financial aid packages for undergraduate students, extending more grants instead.
According to NPR, the policy takes effect Thursday, so students entering the summer 2022 semester will be the first beneficiaries.
Dartmouth College President Philip Hanlon said donors’ generosity will enable students to “prepare for lives of impact with fewer constraints.”
He continued, “Eliminating loans from financial aid packages will allow Dartmouth undergraduates to seek their purpose and passion in the broadest possible range of career possibilities.”
Dartmouth, an Ivy League school in Hanover, New Hampshire, has had a policy that does not require loans for students whose household income is less than $125,000. It will now extend that to students whose household income is greater than $125,000 and receive need-based financial aid, according to the NPR report. The school estimates the move will eliminate up to $5,500 in student debt per student, per year.
Meanwhile, repayment and interest on federal student loans has been suspended since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 under executive order by President Biden. An announcement on the administration’s next steps is expected any day.
Biden campaigned on the issue of student loan forgiveness, pledging to cancel at least $10,000 in student debt per person.
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