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Carl Perkins Grant:
This grant provides assistance with tuition, textbooks and childcare costs to students in eligible occupational majors.
In order to qualify for a Perkins grant, occupational students must fit one of the following categories:
- Single Parent, Including Single Pregnant Woman: A female or male student who is unmarried or separated from a spouse, and has a minor child or children for which the parent has either custody or joint custody, or is unmarried or separated from a spouse and is pregnant.
- Displaced Homemaker: A female or male student who is under-employed or unemployed and is experiencing difficulty in obtaining employment or upgrading employment and:
- has worked primarily without pay for the care of home and family, and for that reason has diminished marketable skills: or
- has been dependent upon the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income: or
- is a parent whose youngest dependent child will become ineligible to receive assistance under Part A or Title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) not later than two years after the date on which the parent applies for assistance under this Title.
- Nontraditional Training and Employment Participant: A female or male student enrolled in an occupational program that is considered nontraditional for his/her gender. These occupations or fields of work generally include careers in computer science, technology and other emerging high skills occupations for which individuals from one gender comprise less than 25 percent of individuals employed in each occupation or field of work. (See SRWC advisor for approved programs of study).
- Economically Disadvantaged: A female, male or migrant student from economically disadvantaged families who is a Pell Grant recipient or recipient of some other form of financial assistance or referred by faculty or staff as requiring support services to succeed.
- Individual with a Disability: A person having any of the disabilities as defined in Section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
- Individual with Limited English Proficiency: An adult who has limited ability in speaking, reading, writing, or understanding the English language, and
- whose native language is a language other than English; or
- who lives in a family or community environment in which a language other than English is the dominant language; and
- who by reason thereof, has sufficient difficulty speaking, reading, writing, or understanding the English language to deny such individual the opportunity to learn successfully in classrooms where the language of instruction is English or to participate fully in our society.
Income Guidelines
Your Family's Gross Income Must Not Exceed:
A) $21,107 or less for one person
B) $28,000 or less for two people
C) $36,697 or less for three people
D) $42,400 or less for four people
E) $49,600 or less for five people
For more information and to apply, an appointment must be scheduled. Call or visit:
Student Resource & Women's Center at (734) 677-5105
Student Center Building, Room 227
4800 East Huron River Dr,
Ann Arbor MI 48105-4800
Note: According to Federal guidelines, those with the greatest financial need will have priority.
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