CARES Act Funding
In addition to so many personal, academic and operational challenges presented by COVID-19 to the Pirate community, significant financial implications have occurred and will continue for our university and so many others across the higher education landscape.
We want to keep these issues from derailing the academic progress that many in our community have worked toward for a lifetime. Our priority in the short term is to provide our students and their families with the relief we can, using funds that have been made available through federal and state grants, our generous donors and other sources.
The U.S. Department of Education has now begun releasing the first wave of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding. In coordination with the UNC System, ECU is in the processing of implementing the best mechanisms to deliver these funds to students. ECU has received approximately $19.4 million, of which $9.7 million is specifically reserved to provide students with emergency financial aid grants.
We have established a clear set of guiding principles to help us distribute this money effectively, equitably and quickly. Our hope is to help students stay enrolled at ECU, mitigate financial impacts from COVID-19, and maintain progress toward earning a college degree – a lifelong goal for so many students and families in our community.
Updates
2023
July 6, 2023 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending June 2023
April 5, 2023 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending March 2023
2022
Jan. 5, 2023 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending December 2022
Oct. 10, 2022 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending September 2022
July 11, 2022 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending June 2022
April 8, 2022 — HEERF Student Awards as of March 31, 2022
April 7, 2022 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending March 2022
2021
Jan. 11, 2022 — HEERF Student Awards as of Dec. 31, 2021
Jan. 11, 2022 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending December 2021
Oct. 8, 2021 — HEERF Student Awards as of Sept. 30, 2021
Oct. 8, 2021 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending September 2021
July 16, 2021 — HEERF Student Awards as of June 30, 2021
July 9, 2021 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending June 2021
July 9, 2021 — HEERF Student Awards as of March 31, 2021
July 9, 2021 — HEERF Quarterly Report — Quarter ending March 2021
2020
Dec. 31, 2020 — Institutional CARES/HEERF Reporting
Oct. 30, 2020 — Institutional CARES Act Reporting
Oct. 10, 2020 — CARES Act Reporting
Aug. 15, 2020 — CARES Act Reporting
June 30, 2020 — CARES Act Reporting
June 15, 2020 — If you have financial needs related to the impact of COVID-19, please make sure you complete your FAFSA and consider filing a special circumstances petition for 2020-21 consideration. At this time, ECU is no longer taking separate applications for CARES Act funding.