Yes. This is a policy I‘d fully support.

🔥🔥🔥

Also, set a base cost-of-living for college/uni students, then give it to those who supply documentation of their own & their parents‘ finances that shows they can’t fund themselves. Simplify award funding & feed into the bursary.
Honestly, I think North American higher education has gone way way overboard with topical awards and special prizes and conditional scholarships. It ties up so many resources: dept staff who could be doing other things, profs who could use the time researching and teaching.
Have staff dedicated to checking documentation and distributing the bursaries to students across the institution. Tell students upfront this is what they can get, save yourself a whole set of specialized communications for each different award.
Bring everyone’s awareness back to the fact that this money is about helping all under-resourced students survive and more students to succeed in higher education. That they deserve it simply because they are there. Ask nobody to record special gratitude messages for it.
And. Do. Not. Ever. Make it dependent on students getting a certain & high grade average across the courses they take. That stuff is fucking corrosive.

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