Unintended Admission Consequences of Federal Aid for Homeschoolers

Journal of College Admission, Fall 2004 by Callaway, Sean

11 Michael B. Goldstein, Esq., Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, pile 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20036, posted to the FINAID-L email list February 11-15,2000

12 Greg Becher, 15 February, 2000 on FINAID-L

13 15 February, 2000, Michael B. Goldstein, Esq., to FINAID-L

14 Private communications with David Hawkins, Director of Public Policy, National Association for College Admission Counseling, June 4 & 6, 2002

15 Greg Becher, 17 February, 2000 on FINAID-L

16 The public colleges and universities in the SUNY system are not audited individually.

17 Tuition Assistance Plan - New York's need-based financial aid grant.

18 Memorandum dated 10/11/ 2002 from Johanna Duncan-Poitier, Deputy Commissioner Office of Higher Education and Office of the Professions, the State Education Department to Chief Executive Officers of New York State Degree-Granting Institutions

19 Memorandum dated 10/10/ 2002 from Dona S. Bulluck of The State University of New York Office of University Counsel to Community College Chief Student Affairs Officers

20 New York State Education Department: Chapter 1 of Title 8 of the Official Compilation of Codes, section 3.47 - Requirements for Degrees

21 The president of New York State LEAH, the largest homeschooling organization in the state, stated in a public email that Syracuse University has asked homeschool graduates of the local community college to produce a GED or letter from the superintendent before admitting them as juniors.

22 The MCC press release said that it was enforcing a SED regulation, "..... which it has no control over." The financial aid director of another community college said to me that community colleges were caught in the middle and were "cannon fodder." He also said that the homeschooled students on his campus have always been superior.

23 This doesn't bode well for New York. Already, on homeschool list-serves, postsecondary NY has the reputation as unfriendly to homeschoolers. NY homeschoolers (and families) are going elsewhere, and homeschoolers are shying away from NY for undergraduate studies. It's the beginning of a negative flow of students in this niche, which may be hard to reverse.

24 Greg Becher, 18 February, 2000 on FINAID-L

Sean Callaway is director of college placement and internships at the Center for Urban Education, part of the Pace University School of Education (NY). He is also on the NACAC Current Trends and Future Issues Committee, and is co-chair of the New York State ACAC Admission Practices and Human Relations Committees. He won the New York State ACAC Human Relations Award in 2003.