Columbia U. Students Push Plan for Scholarship Endowment for Needy Students

Forget the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Some students at Columbia University have their own ideas about how to transform federal student aid.

The group is shopping a proposed bill around Congress, the National Tuition Endowment Act of 2005, that calls for creating a $30-billion endowment to provide scholarships to low-income juniors and seniors with grade-point averages of 3.0 or higher, and to graduate students who plan to enter public-service professions. The

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