Work less and receive a grant to study more?

Inside Higher Ed reports.

Temple U offers grant in exchange for students agreeing to work less, study more

When Henry Fountain enrolled at Temple University last year, he was working two jobs: 40 hours per week with his local government during summer break and 23 hours per week as a busboy at a restaurant during the school year. It was an arrangement he had to balance for years while in high school, but a few weeks into his freshman year at Temple, Fountain quit the restaurant job.

And the university gave him $4,000 for doing so.

“It was a little bit of a burden, going to school and working,” Fountain, a sophomore majoring in business, said. “I thought I could do both, and I was doing both, but I was so stretched. So I quit the job at the restaurant altogether to focus more on schoolwork. I was able to see a dramatic difference.”