Students go to D.C. to lobby for financial aid

Mounica Gummadi is only a College junior, but she’s already helped public school biology teachers implement lab ideas in their classrooms. She was able to participate in this community service, she said, because of a federal financial aid award.

Gummadi was part of the first contingent of students — four undergraduate and two graduate students — that Student Registration and Financial Services sent to Washington, D.C. over the summer to make a case for the importance of financial aid. From now on, SRFS hopes to make the trip every other year.

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