1. An acknowledgement that the school signed and returned the Certification and Agreement and the assurance that the institution used—or intends to use—at least 50 percent of the Cares Act funds received for emergency grants to students.
HACS has signed and returned the Certification and Agreement and will use at least 50% of the Cares Act funds received for emergency grants to students.
2. The total amount of funds a school received—or will receive—from ED.
The allocated amount awarded by the Department of Ed to HACS was $22,522 of which $11,261 will go to on campus students who experienced sudden disruption. Those students in our online programs are not eligible due to no disruption in their mode of delivery.
3. The total amount of emergency grants distributed to students as of the posting/submission date.
The total amount of emergency grants distributed as of 8/24/20 is $9,756.
4. The estimated number of students eligible to participate in the emergency grant program (the number of Title IV eligible students under Section 484 of the Higher Education Act).
The estimated number of students eligible to participate in the emergency grant program is 17.
5. The total number of students who have received emergency grants under the CARES Act.
The total number of students who have received the emergency grants as of 8/24/20 is 10
The total number of students who have declined the emergency grants as of 8/24/20 is 3
The total number of students who have not responded as of 8/24/20 is 4.
6. The method(s) used to determine which students received the emergency grants and how much they received.
The method used to determine which students received the emergency grants was to adhere to the requirement that our oncampus students be Title IV eligible under Section 484 of the HEA.
The method of how much they received in the first Award Offers was to divide both undergrad and graduate students into two categories: full time and less than full time. Then using the Pell Chart schedule to assign the full time students the maximum amount of the lowest cell $775 and the less than full time students were assigned half that amount or $388.
The second Award Offer was based on need according to the FAFSA. Students were sent another Award Offer acknowledging that they still had needs according to the criteria previously established. The first checks of this second wave commenced on 7/22/20.
7. Any instructions, directions, or guidance provided to students concerning the emergency grants.
Students who had not submitted a FAFSA had to self attest to eligibility in the first letter issued 5/15. As these letters were returned, the Award Offer was issued with the initial awarded amount. The student again needed to self attest that they had needs that met or exceed the awarded amount related to the disruption of their classes on campus due to coronavirus including expenses under a student’s cost of attendance such as food, housing, course materials, technology, health care and child care. As these letters were returned the checks were issued.
As noted in #6, another Award was offered to eligible students based on need, not enrollment status, according to their FAFSA.
This Disclosure to be updated every 45 days. The next update is due on October 8, 2020.