Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Information and Procedures
As in institution of Higher Education, Tennessee School of Beauty (the school) applied for and was awarded funds to provide emergency financial aid grants to students for expenses related to the disruption of campus operations due to Coronavirus (including eligible expenses under a student’s cost of attendance such as food, housing, course materials, technology, health care, and child care). This information solely concerns the emergency financial aid grants to students under Section 1800r © of the CARES Act.
- The school acknowledges that it signed and returned to the Department the Certification and Agreement and the assurance that the school has used, or intends to use, no less than 50% of the funds received under Section 18004 (a)(1) f the CARES Act to provide Emergency Financial Aid Grants to students.
- The school received $125,779 in Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF).
- The school, as of March 31, 2021 has distributed $125,779
- The estimated total number of students eligible to participate in Title IV programs and thus eligible to receive Emergency Student Grants under the HEERF program is 199.
- The total number of students who have received an Emergency Student Grant under the HEERF program as of March 31, 2021 is 179.
- The school took the total amount of funds received and divided by the total number of eligible students who were in school and eligible as of March 12, 2020. Then on November 13, 2020, the school took the remaining funds left over from those eligible students who never returned to school after March 12 ($9832.31) and divided that by the number of eligible students who began in the next Cosmetology class we had following our reopening and those 18 students each received $546.24. In addition, two students who qualified for pell grants in 19-20 but weren’t able to get the second half of their pell grant funds due to not qualifying for the 20-21 pell grant and not reaching their necessary hours before June 30, 2020 also received an additional $2382 each.
- Eligible students who were in school as of March 12, 2020 and who have continued their schooling as of April 25, 2020 were the ones who received the initial grant money. The remaining grant money was disbursed to those eligible students who began in the June 2020 Cosmetology class. Any student who withdrew or was deemed to have not returned from a leave of absence were not issued the Grants.
*updated 04/07/2021