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(The Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program at holliston
Junior College]. B-164031(I); HED-77-45. February 15, 1977. 4
pp.
Report to Commissioner of Education, Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare; by Gregory J. Ahart, Director, Human
Resources Div.
Issue Area: Education, Training, and Employment Erograms (1100).
Contact: Human Resources Div.
Budget Function: Education, Manpower, and Social Services-
Research and General Education Aids (503).
Organization Concerned: Department cf Labor; Eollistcn Junior
Coll., MA; Massachusetts: Div. of Employment Security;
Office of Education.
Authority: Higher Education Act of 1965, s amended, title XV-A
(20 U.S.C. 1070a.). Education Amendments of 1976 (P.L.
94-482). 45 C.F.R. 190.2(e).
The Holliston Junior College Basic Educational Grant
Program, which provides grants to needy ctudents enrolled in a
special secretarial program, was reviewed in respo~se to charges
of abuse of the program. Findings/Conclusions: As of June 1976,
the ccllege bad awarded 248 Basic Grants, totaling about
$238,000, to stvdents enrolled in what appeared to be an
ineliqible secretarial program established in June 1975.
Holliston introduced the special secretarial program to provide
welfare mothers with a marketable skill. The failure of the
progr; m to lead to a degree or certificate made the progran
ineliqible. In addition, fror a program to be eliga'-le, it must
be of aL least 6-months duratioL; a semester at liolliston was 15
weeks long. Holliston has changed the program to include 30
credit hours of study, which leads to a cwrtificate, and has
made the program satijfy the 6-month criteria. Recommendaticns:
The Office of Education should determine if the college
circumvented the Basic Grant eligibility criteria and whether
restitution should be made to the Federal Government. The Office
of Education should also determine whether the changes made in
the specia. secretarial program bring it into compliance with
Basic Grant eligibility criteria. (SW)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaabrx0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)