Broken Promises: Resolving Financial Aid Dilemmas that Further Marginalize Students in Need

Many engineering colleges around the country have made significant effort to recruit and enroll underrepresented minority (URM) engineering students in an effort to broaden participation in engineering [1].Access to financial resources is essential for many of these students in their pursuit of higher education since they are disproportionately represented in lower income brackets and are more likely to be Pell eligible [2].In an attempt to recruit these students, the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB) developed a campus-wide "CU Promise" program to assist Pell Grant eligible students with college tuition and fees.