Office will be closed on the following days during Thanksgiving and Christmas: 

11/26/09 - 11/27/09, 12/21/09 - 01/01/10

Regular Hours:

Office:

8:30am – 3:30pm 

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

8:30am - 2:00pm

Wednesday

Phone:

9:00am - 3:00pm

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday        

9:00am - 2:00pm

Wednesday

except State and Federal Holidays

Phone #:  (808) 956-7251         
Fax #:     (808) 956-3985 

Location:

2600 Campus Road
QLCSS Room 112
Honolulu, HI 96822

Email:   

finaid@hawaii.edu

(please include your student ID # in your message)

TEACH Grants

The New Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program provides up to $4000 per year for Undergraduate and Graduate students who intend to teach full time in high need subject areas for at least four years at schools that serve students from low-income families.  The Federal Student Aid TEACH Grant information and Fact Sheet is available at: http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/TEACH.jsp

 Teaching Obligation – Agreement to Serve

In exchange for receiving a TEACH Grant, you must be a highly-qualified, full-time teacher in a high-need subject area for at least four years at a school serving low-income students (Title I schools). As a recipient of a TEACH Grant, you must teach for at least four academic years within eight calendar years of completing the program of study for which you received a TEACH Grant. The Agreement to Serve is available at: http://teach-ats.ed.gov.

IMPORTANT:  If you fail to complete this service obligation, all amounts of TEACH Grants you received, will be converted into a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan.  You must then repay the U.S. Department of Education and you will be charged interest from the date the first grant was disbursed.

To be eligible for a TEACH Grant, you must meet the following criteria:

• Complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)

• Be a U.S. Citizen or Eligible Non-Citizen

• Be enrolled as a Classified, Degree Seeking student in a program of study in the College of Education at University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Must be completing the coursework necessary to begin a career in teaching.

• Meet one of the following academic achievement requirements:

• Score above the 75^th percentile on a college admissions test (example: SAT, GRE)
• Graduate from high school with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25 to receive a grant as a freshmen, or

• Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25 at UH Manoa

• Complete TEACH Grant counseling and sign a TEACH Grant Agreement to Serve (ATS) at https://teach-ats.ed.gov.    Be sure to respond to requests by the U.S. Department of Education confirming your continuing intention to meet the teaching obligation.

IMPORTANT:  If you fail to complete this service obligation, all amounts of TEACH Grants you received, will be converted into a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan.  You must then repay the U.S. Department of Education and you will be charged interest from the date the first grant was disbursed.

 High-Need Fields:

• Bilingual Education and English Language Acquisition
• Foreign Language
• Mathematics
• Reading Specialist
• Science
• Special Education
• Other Identified teacher shortage areas as of the time you begin teaching in that field.  To access the U.S. Department of Education’s Annual Teacher Shortage Areas Nationwide Listing, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/pol/tsa.doc