PORT ANGELES – More than $6 billion in emergency funds to help students impacted by coronavirus will be distributed as early as this week to colleges and universities, including Peninsula College here in Port Angeles. That’s according to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
The CARES Act gives individual schools broad discretion on how to award this emergency assistance to students.
Peninsula College will receive a little over $580,000 that could be allocated to students for expenses such as room and board, tuition, childcare, health care, food, and technology.
School staff were set to meet early this week to develop a plan for getting funds to students.
The funds are part of the more than $14 billion earmarked for colleges and universities as part of the Education Stabilization Fund included in the third coronavirus stimulus package, which was signed into law by the President late last month.
For more information contact Peninsula College’s Financial Aid Director, Barbara Cloutier, at bcloutier@pencol.edu.