{"id":3394,"date":"2019-04-02T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/?page_id=3394"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:19:45","slug":"financial-aid-policy-for-drug-violations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/financial-aid-policy-for-drug-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Aid Policy for Drug Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>NOTICE TO STUDENTS CONCERNING PENALTIES FOR DRUG VIOLATIONS<\/p>\n<p>Date: September 15, 2015<\/p>\n<p>To: All St. Olaf Students<\/p>\n<p>From: Financial Aid Office, Tomson Hall 120<\/p>\n<p>The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, requires that we notify all students of the following:<\/p>\n<p>Students who are convicted of any offense under federal or state law involving the sale or possession of a controlled substance during a period of enrollment at a post-secondary institution while receiving Federal Student Aid funds (Federal Pell and SEOG, Federal Perkins, Federal Direct Stafford, Federal Direct Plus and\/or Federal Student Employment) are subject to the following periods of ineligibility for future federal aid:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Possession of an Illegal Substance<\/td>\n<td>Sale of an Illegal Substance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1st Offense<\/td>\n<td>One year from the date of conviction<\/td>\n<td>Two years from the date of conviction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2nd Offense<\/td>\n<td>Two years from the date of conviction<\/td>\n<td>Indefinite Period<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3+ Offenses<\/td>\n<td>Indefinite Period<\/td>\n<td>Indefinite Period<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you are convicted of both possessing and selling illegal drugs, and the periods of ineligibility are different, you will be ineligible for the longer period.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions regarding your eligibility for federal aid as a result of a drug conviction while receiving Federal Student Aid, please contact our office at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:finaid@stolaf.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rawhref=\"mailto:finaid@stolaf.edu\">finaid@stolaf.edu<\/a>\u00a0or at (507)786-3019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTICE TO STUDENTS CONCERNING PENALTIES FOR DRUG VIOLATIONS Date: September 15, 2015 To: All St. Olaf Students From: Financial Aid Office, Tomson Hall 120 The Higher Education Act of 1965, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3394\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}