RPI, HVCC, Sage among local colleges receiving federal funding
The Record (Troy) / March 24, 2021
CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. — Following steadfast support for New York’s colleges and universities throughout the pandemic, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the recently-signed American Rescue Plan includes an estimated $2.6 billion for New York’s public, private, and proprietary institutions of higher education.
Hudson Valley Community College is slated to receive $18,480,000.
Schumer, D-NY, said that public and non-profit schools will use half of their award on emergency financial aid grants to students to help them with college costs and basic needs like housing, food, and healthcare.
The other half of the funds will allow institutions to provide additional student support activities, and to cover a variety of institutional costs, including lost revenue, reimbursement for expenses already incurred, technology costs associated with a transition to distance education, faculty and staff trainings, and payroll. Proprietary schools must use their awards exclusively to provide financial aid grants to students.
“As New York’s colleges, universities, and students face over a year of unprecedented hurdles, they do so at a steep cost that it is our responsibility to address and overcome. In prioritizing the health and safety of students, faculty, and staff, New York’s higher education institutions have ripped massive holes in their budgets and are now facing down financial devastation – and we simply can’t let that happen,” Schumer stated.
“As Majority Leader, I was proud to make funding for New York’s higher education institutions and students a top priority, and the American Rescue Plan will deliver this much needed $2.6 billion in assistance to help our world-class institutions through the crisis, get students safely back to classes, and get campuses across the state back to ‘normal’,” Schumer added.
This funding is in addition to the $2.4 billion Schumer secured for New York’s institutions of higher education in the past COVID relief bills. In total, Schumer has secured over $5 billion for New York’s colleges and universities in the past year.
Schools in the Capital Region are projected to receive $152,442,000 in grants.
Below are Capital Region educational institutions of higher education and the associated fund allocations:
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, $2,360,000
Albany Law School, $334,000
Albany Medical College, $563,000
Albany Schoharie Schenectady Saratoga BOCES, $1,127,000
The College of Saint Rose, $9,263,000
Excelsior College,$2,726,000
Maria College,$2,393,000
Mildred Elley, $1,067,000
New School Center for Media, $29,000
St. Peter’s Hospital College of Nursing, $302,000
State University of New York at Albany, $44,087,000
Siena College, $6,853,000
Columbia-Greene Community College, $3,203,000
Hudson Valley Community College, $18,480,000
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, $13,563,000
Russell Sage College, $4,895,000
Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing, $343,000
Skidmore College, $4,152,000
SUNY Empire State College, $14,170,000
Ellis Medicine, The Belanger School of Nursing, $202,000
Schenectady County Community College, $9,173,000
Union College, $3,033,000
Modern Welding School, $47,000.00
Word of Life Bible Institute, $1,503,000
Adirondack Community College, $8,532,000
Washington Saratoga Warren Hamilton Essex BOCES, $42,000
Published: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:00:21 +0000 by d.gardner