Updated: 01/20/2023
Report and Disclosure
Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Reporting
Cares Emergency Financial Aid Grants to Students
Section 18004(a)(1)
Final Report
Richmont Graduate University
April 8, 2022
Richmont Graduate University acknowledges it signed and returned to the U.S. Department of Education the Certification and Agreement on July 29, 2020, and gives the assurance that RGU intends to use no less than 50% of the funds received under section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act to provide Emergency Financial Aid Grants to students.
Institution Name: Richmont Graduate University Date of Report: January 10, 2023 Covering Quarter Ending: December 31, 2022
PR/Award Number(s): P425E: 149538; P425F: 148446; P425J__ P425K__ P425L__ P425M__ P425N: __; P425Q __ P425S __ P425T: 220435
Final Report? ___
Total Amount of Institutional Funds Awarded: Section (a)(1): $0.00 Section (a)(2): $0.00 Section (a)(3): $0.00
Total Amount of Student Funds Awarded: Section (a)(1): $85,830.00 Section (a)(4): $0.00
How much of your HEERF student funds remain left to be disbursed at the end of the reporting period? $64635.72
| Total Students | Undergraduates | Graduates | ||
| Number of HEERF Student Recipients – Emergency Grants to Students | ||||
| How many students received HEERF emergency financial aid grants using (a)(1) Student Aid Portion? | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| How many students received HEERF emergency financial aid grants using (a)(1) Institutional Portion? | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| HEERF (a)(1) Student Aid Portion Amount Disbursed | ||||
| What was the amount disbursed directly to students as Emergency Financial Aid Grants this quarter? | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| What was the amount disbursed directly to students as Emergency Financial Aid Grants to date using HEERF? | $21,194.28 | $0.00 | $21,194.28 | |
| What was the amount of Emergency Financial Aid Grants applied to satisfy students’ outstanding account balance upon receiving affirmative written consent from students to do so? If funds were not used for this purpose, report $0. Include only amounts that benefited students who did directly receive Emergency Financial Aid Grants. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| HEERF (a)(1) Institutional Portion Amount Disbursed | ||||
| What was the amount disbursed directly to students as Emergency Financial Aid Grants? | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| What was the amount of Emergency Financial Aid Grants applied to satisfy students’ outstanding account balances? If funds were not used for this purpose, report $0. Include only amounts that benefited students who did directly receive Emergency Financial Aid Grants. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| HEERF (a)(4) Amount Disbursed (Proprietary Institutions Grant Funds for Students) | ||||
| What was the amount disbursed directly to students as Emergency Financial Aid Grants? If funds were not used for this purpose, report $0. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| What was the amount of Emergency Financial Aid Grants applied to satisfy students’ outstanding account balance upon receiving affirmative written consent from students to do so? If funds were not used for this purpose, report $0. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| HEERF Amount of Grants Disbursed | ||||
| What was the amount of grants disbursed to students through all HEERF funds? | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| Average HEERF Amount Awarded | ||||
| Among students who received HEERF emergency financial aid grants, what was the average award amount per student? | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| Category | Amount in (a)(1) institutional dollars |
Amount in (a)(2) dollars, if applicable | Amount in (a)(3) dollars, if applicable | Explanatory Notes | |
| Providing additional emergency financial aid grants to students.[4] | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
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$0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Indirect cost recovery/facilities and administrative costs charged on the grants. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Covering the cost of providing additional technology hardware to students, such as laptops or tablets, or covering the added cost of technology fees. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Providing or subsidizing the costs of high-speed internet to students or faculty to transition to an online environment. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Subsidizing off-campus housing costs due to dormitory closures or decisions to limit housing to one student per room; subsidizing housing costs to reduce housing density; paying for hotels or other off-campus housing for students who need to be isolated; paying travel expenses for students who need to leave campus early due to coronavirus infections or campus interruptions. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Subsidizing food service to reduce density in eating facilities, to provide pre-packaged meals, or to add hours to food service operations to accommodate social distancing. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Costs related to operating additional class sections to enable social distancing, such as those for hiring more instructors and increasing campus hours of operations. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Purchasing, leasing, or renting additional instructional equipment and supplies (such as laboratory equipment or computers) to reduce the number of students sharing equipment or supplies during a single class period and to provide time for disinfection between uses. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Purchasing faculty and staff training in online instruction; or paying additional funds to staff who are providing training in addition to their regular job responsibilities. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Construction, renovation, and real property[5] | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Purchasing, leasing, or renting additional equipment or software to enable distance learning, or upgrading campus wi-fi access or extending open networks to parking lots or public spaces, etc. | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Implementing evidence-based practices to monitor and suppress coronavirus in accordance with public health guidelines.[6] | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Providing or subsidizing mental health resources for students who are experiencing additional mental health needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as increasing the supply, diversity, and cultural competency of mental health providers; connecting students to care; and investing in community services and creating a culture of wellness and support.[7] | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Conducting direct outreach to financial aid applicants about the opportunity to receive a financial aid adjustment due to the recent unemployment of a family member or independent student, or other circumstances, described in section 479A of the Higher Education Act of 1965.[8] | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Replacing lost revenue from all sources.[9] | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Other Uses of (a)(1) Institutional Portion funds. | $0.00 | ||||
| Quarterly Expenditures for each Program | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Total of Quarterly Expenditures | $0.00 | ||||
Form Instructions
Completing the Form: On each form, fill out the institution of higher education (IHE or institution) name, the date of the report, the appropriate quarter the report covers (September 30, December 31, March 31, June 30), the total amount of funds awarded by the Department (including reserve funds if awarded), and check the box if the report is a “final report.” In the chart, an institution must specify the amount of expended CARES Act funds for each funding category: Sections 18004(a)(1) Institutional Portion, 18004(a)(2), and 18004(a)(3), if applicable. Section 18004(a)(2) funds includes CFDAs 84.425J (Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)), 84.425K (Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)), 84.425L (Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)), 84.425M (Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP)); Section 18004(a)(3) funds are for CFDA 84.425N (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Formula Grant). Each category is deliberately broad and may not capture specific grant program requirements. Explanatory footnotes help clarify certain reporting categories. While some items in the chart are blocked out, please note that the blocking of such items is consistent with Department guidance and FAQs and is not definitive. Provide brief explanatory notes for how funds were expended, including the title and brief description of each project or activity in which funds were expended. Do not include personally identifiable information (PII). Calculate the amount of the Section 18004(a)(1) Institutional Portion (referred to as “(a)(1) institutional” in the chart), Section 18004(a)(2) (referred to as “(a)(2)” in the chart), and Section 18004(a)(3) (referred to as “(a)(3)” in the chart) funds in the “Quarterly Expenditures for each Program” row, and the grand total of all three in the “Total of Quarterly Expenditures” row. Round expenditures to the nearest dollar.
Posting the Form: This form must be conspicuously posted on the institution’s primary website on the same page the reports of the IHE’s activities as to the emergency financial aid grants to students made with funds from the IHE’s allocation under Section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act (Student Aid Portion) are posted. It may be posted in an HTML webpage format or as a link to a PDF. A new separate form must be posted covering each quarterly reporting period (September 30, December 31, March 31, June 30), concluding after either (1) posting the quarterly report ending September 30, 2022 or (2) when an institution has expended and liquidated all (a)(1) Institutional Portion, (a)(2), and (a)(3) funds and checks the “final report” box. IHEs must post this quarterly report form no later than 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter (October 10, January 10, April 10, July 10) apart from the first report, which is due October 30, 2020. For the first report using this form, institutions must provide their cumulative expenditures from the date of their first HEERF award through September 30, 2020. Each quarterly report must be separately maintained on an IHE’s website or in a PDF document linked directly from the IHE’s CARES Act reporting webpage. Reports must be maintained for at least three years after the submission of the final report per 2 CFR § 200.333. Any changes or updates after initial posting must be conspicuously noted after initial posting and the date of the change must be noted in the “Date of Report” line.
Paperwork Burden Statement
According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 1840-0849. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 2 hours per response, including time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Under the PRA, participants are required to respond to this collection to obtain or retain benefit. If you have any comments concerning the accuracy of the time estimate or suggestions for improving this individual collection, or if you have comments or concerns regarding the status of your individual form, application, or survey, please contact: Jack Cox, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20202.
[1] For the initial report and each report thereafter, institutions should use data suppression or other statistical methodologies to protect the personally identifiable information from student education records consistent with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g; 34 CFR part 99) and any applicable state laws. For this report when the total number of students who received HEERF emergency financial aid grants as undergraduates, graduates, or in total is less than 10, but not 0, then the institution should display the total number of students as less than 10 (“<10”) on the publicly available websites controlled by the institution. Additionally, IHEs should use complementary suppression to protect values that could be inferred otherwise. For example, if the total student count is equal to 25, the undergraduate amount is equal to 20, and the graduate amount equal to 5, IHEs should report both the undergraduate and graduate amount as ‘-‘. The total student count can remain displayed as is.
[2] For students in both undergraduate and graduate categories, classify as a graduate student.
[3] Do NOT include funds from the Institutional Resilience and Expanded Postsecondary Opportunity (IREPO) funds as part of this annual performance report.
[4] To support expenses related to the disruption f campus operations due to coronavirus consistent with applicable law. This includes eligible expenses under a student’s cost of attendance under CARES Act Section 18004(c), or any component of a student’s cost of attendance or for emergency costs that arise due to coronavirus, such as tuition, food, housing, health care (including mental health care), or childcare, per Section 314(c) of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (CRRSAA), and Section 2003 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP).
[5] The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (P.L. 117-103), signed into law by President Biden on March 15, 2022, expanded the allowable uses of funds for IHEs that received funds under the HEERF (a)(2) programs (ALN 84.425J; T84.425K; 84.425L; 84.425M). Specifically, IHEs that received HEERF (a)(2) grant funds now may expend them on the acquisition of real property, renovations, or construction related to preventing, preparing for, and responding to the coronavirus. Before commencing any renovations, construction, or real property projects supported by HEERF (a)(2) grant funds, grantees must receive approval for the project from the Department.
[6] Including funding to cover the cost of vaccine distribution.
[7] Note: Section 2003(5)(B) of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) requires that an institution use a portion of funds received under such Act to conduct direct outreach to financial aid applicants about the opportunity to receive a financial aid adjustment due to the recent unemployment of a family member or independent student, or other circumstances, described in section 479A of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087tt). Institutions do not need to report an expense under this category every quarter but must do so at least once during the life of their HEERF grants. Please see the HEERF ARP FAQs for more information.
[8] Please include funding provided to cover the cost of vaccine distribution in this line. Note: Section 2003(5)(A) of the ARP requires that an institution use a portion of funds received under such act to implement evidence-based practices to monitor and suppress coronavirus in accordance with public health guidelines. Institutions do not need to report an expense under this category every quarter but must do so at least once during the life of their HEERF grants. Please see the HEERF ARP FAQs for more information.
[9] Please see the Department’s HEERF Lost Revenue FAQs (March 19, 2021) for more information regarding what may be appropriately included in an estimate of lost revenue.