Turtle Talk

From a longer post by Tenured Radical discussing the shutdown:

Open, however, does not mean that higher education in Minnesota continues to be accessible.  A shutdown into late summer  could begin to disrupt or prevent the matriculation of a majority of students prior to the opening of the fall semester. According to this source, financial aid to the state’s most needy students has already been disrupted, interrupting the education of hard-working students who often rely on the summer term to speed their path to a degree. “State grants and scholarships like State Work study programs, the Minnesota Indian scholarship, Child Care grants and the Minnesota GI bill have all been suspended,” reporter Megan Nicolai writes, and the financial aid office is operating on limited hours. However, “The Student Educational Loan Fund program has stayed open, however, after Ramsey County Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin ruled the service critical during a state government shutdown. SELF loans are low-interest loans for Minnesota students who have exhausted their federal aid options for higher education.”