Efforts are underway by the Senate education committee to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. Lawmakers are focused on establishing a state-federal partnership program to increase investments in higher education, providing more information to students and their families so they can make informed choices about where to go to college, and simplifying the federal student aid program to reduce the maze of loan repayment options available to borrowers. But there is one proposal to extend Pell Grants to very, very short-term programs. The proposal, which has been introduced as the JOBS Act and in the House Democrats' College Affordability Act and proposed by the Trump administration, would allow Pell Grants to go to programs as short as eight weeks. Some versions of the bill would include only public and nonprofit colleges; others would also allow for-profits to participate. This issue brief explains the potential costs and implications of providing Pell Grants to short-term, non-credit bearing programs.