ABSTRACT
The United States federal government has long-established rules and regulations for the disbursement of federal financial aid funding to students dating back to the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965. Free college, student loan forgiveness, and charitable foundations might be the solutions to the problems in education, but only if we want to continue the pursuit of our capitalistic notions of success. This chapter explores a small section of the 1998 Amendments to the HEA of 1965 that enforced a new law in regard to Title IV funding for students who were convicted of a drug offense by state or federal government — a law that is still very much in practice today. That new amendment from 1998 stated that students would not be eligible to receive Title IV federal funding if they were "convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law involving the possession or sale of a controlled substance".
