December 21, 2001

Financial-Aid Troubles Roil a Massachusetts 2-Year College

By JAMILAH EVELYN

State weighs tighter control of Roxbury as its president quits

Spend a day at Roxbury Community College, and it's hard to avoid bumping into students who feel wronged.

Derek Smith, a 27-year-old mathematics major at the traditionally black institution, says that in the summer of 2000, he was told by Roxbury officials that he qualified for about $1,000 in federal grants each semester, enough to cover his tuition for the year. This fall, his income had not changed, so he figured