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Higher Education Student Assistance
Authority
ALTERNATE NAME
HESAA
ADDRESS
4 Quakerbridge Plaza, PO Box 540
Trenton, NJ 08625
PHONE
800-792-8670
609-588-2526 - TDD System for Hearing Impaired, staffed
MON-FRI: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
FAX
609-588-2228
INTERNET ADDRESS
ADMINISTRATOR
E. Michael Angulo, Executive Director
CONTACT NAME
Andre Maglione, Associate Director of Client Services
DESCRIPTION
Since 1959, HESAA, a non-profit state-designated Authority,
has delivered more than $18 billion in financial aid. Each year
more than 1 million students receive assistance from ourtreach
programs and aid programs.
PROGRAMS
Financial Aid Grants and Loans: 1) Tuition Aid Grant (TAG)
provides aid to eligible undergraduate students attending in-
state institutions; 2) Part-time Tuition Aid Grant for
County Colleges provides aid to eligible part-time undergraduate students.
3) NJCLASS - supplemental loan program for
eligible students; 4) NJBEST - state-sponsored college savings
plan for NJ residents; 5) Federally guaranteed student loans; 6)
Survivor Tuition Benefits Program - financial aid for spouses
and children of New Jersey firefighters, emergency service or
law enforcement personnel killed in the line of duty; 7)
Educational Opportunity Fund provides financial aid to eligible
students from educationally and economically disadvantaged
backgrounds at participating in-state institutions.
Awards and Scholarships: 1) Garden State Scholarship - merit-
based college financial aid program; 2) Dana Christmas Award
for Heroism - honors young New Jersey residents for acts of
heroism; 3) New Jersey World Trade Center Scholarship -
established by the legislature to aid the dependent children and
surviving spouses of NJ residents who were killed in the
terrorist attacks, or who are missing and officially presumed
dead as a direct result of the attacks; applies to in-state and
out-of-state institutions for students seeking undergraduate
degrees; 4) NJ STARS provides tuition and approved fees for
up to five semesters at a county college for students
graduating in the top 20 percent of their high school class;
NJSTARS II is a continuation of this program at a state 4-year
institution; 5) Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished
and Urban Scholars Award - merit-based college financial aid
program.
FOUNDED
1959
SUBJECTS
Funding and Grants
LAST UPDATED
5/08