The Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP) grant hasn’t kept up with the cost of college, putting college out of reach for many low-income students. In 2002, MAP covered 100 percent of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities, making higher education more affordable for hundreds of thousands of students. Today, due to rising tuition and state budget cuts, a MAP grant covers less than two-thirds of tuition and fees at community colleges. To make matters worse, MAP repeatedly runs out of funding, leaving over 100,000 eligible students without a MAP grant every school year.