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In article <3o85m8$rul@news.duke.edu> ricks@acpub.duke.edu (Rick Steeves) writes:

>And Duke financial Aid is providing NO moeny? I find this rather odd.

>Contact financial aid; I'm sure they can help. 
>Rick
>ricks@acpub.duke.edu

Due to typically limited money sources, even at Duke, the Financial Aid office 
has not been able for several years to provide financial aid for foreign 
students, and foreign students are not eligible for  federal funds or 
loans.  Permanent Residents (who have satisfied time and procedural 
requirements to obtain most US citizen priviledges) are eligible for Duke aid 
and federal aid.  

Many students also bring their own outside scholarship aid to colleges, which 
may be private or corporate grants, earned by merit possibly or by being in 
the right population subgroup to qualify, or occasionally a wealthy family 
friend or relative who provides a grant to help with the student's education 
costs.  There are actually a lot of such funds that go untapped due to 
students not knowing they are available.  

Some of these outside funds are known to a college's financial aid office and 
they can help the student get them.  Others are known only within the 
community where they are offered. (In many cases such outside financial help 
replaces some of the college provided grants, allowing the college to spread 
its own resources to more students, not a relevant point for this particular 
person though.)  

This is the sort of thing this person is looking for, some private or 
corporate resources to assist.  Since this is a visiting professor from 
Russia, he has probably not had a chance to build up the financial resources 
that an American college professor usually has by the time he/she has college 
age children, no matter what his current salary.

And I'd say the Internet is a good search tool to seek out information about 
possibly available funds.

Didi Pearce

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