{"id":248,"date":"2011-02-17T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/2011\/02\/17\/umass-system-increases-financial-aid\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T20:33:00","slug":"umass-system-increases-financial-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/2011\/02\/17\/umass-system-increases-financial-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass System Increases Financial Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: small\">Hey all you money-struggling college students (much like myself!) How&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s week been? The days seem to fly by! I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s already mid-February!! Well, as the semester goes on and I get busier and busier, I&#8217;m noticing a decrease in the width of my wallet. I&#8217;m sure many of you have had similar experiences.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i><span style=\"font-size: small\">Well, for those of us drowning in student debt&#8230;there <b>IS<\/b> hope!!&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><b>The UMass system has increased it&#8217;s Financial Aid contribution by 267%!!<\/b> &#8220;The University of Massachusetts is allocating <b><i>$130.5 million <\/i><\/b>for student  financial aid this year, the university announced today.&#8221;<i> -Globe Corespondent <\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\">In the past, UMass has allocated around <i>$30 million<\/i> to assist students with financial aid. The UMass system knows how important a higher education is, which is why they are increasing the amount of financial aid.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\">Well, I for one am excited about this! Who&#8217;s with me??<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\">I hope you all have a great weekend!!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\">-Ashley<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all you money-struggling college students (much like myself!) How&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s week been? The days seem to fly by! I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s already mid-February!! Well, as the semester goes on and I get busier and busier, I&#8217;m noticing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/2011\/02\/17\/umass-system-increases-financial-aid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/orientation-ambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}