University of Texas to provide free tuition for students from families earning $100,000 or less
University of Texas to provide free tuition for students from families earning $100,000 or less
The Board of Regents approved the tuition plan on Thursday.
Summary
The University of Texas System has approved a tuition-free program for undergraduate students from families earning $100,000 or less, starting next fall.
The initiative, funded by an immediate $35 million in endowments and long-term investments, seeks to lower student debt and improve access to higher education.
Qualifying students must be Texas residents, enroll full-time, and apply for financial aid.
While the program builds on previous UT tuition relief efforts funded by endowments and oil royalties, critics, including Texas lawmakers, have called it unconstitutional and proposed cutting UT’s budget.
But you have to be in Texas.
Love this. Forgiving student loans is a band-aid. Making higher education free or more affordable is the real solution.
Wait, good news? I’m waiting for a republican judge or the house to somehow block this.
Read OP's last sentence.
Oh, yea. Checks out
This is nice to hear but there are lots of expenses besides tuition. Like housing, books, food, "fees", etc. If the program costs just $35mm in a huge university like that, you know it's not covering much. Source: this was sort of the situation at my old school. Tuition was fairly low back then, but everything else still added up.
Holy fuck. You literally cannot win with some people.
It's a good positive step but there's still a way to go. Headline makes it sound different.
If you live close enough and source your books from somewhere else than the campus bookstore you solve most of these problems. Unless a course uses Pearson, fuck Pearson.
Socialism in my Texas?!?! /s
It’s more likely than you think.
This is pretty neat. Did not expect this at all. Going to look into it more.
I make too much to take advantage of this so obviously I hate it.
Just kidding, I'm fucking excited for the folks who will get to take advantage of this program. Fuck the lawmakers trying to axe this.
It doesn't even make sense. This will cause people to move to the state. Don't they want more tax income and wage slaves?
They hate education and the educated.
I wonder if anyone will get strategically divorced to stay under the limit.
Reminder to everyone, college and university didn't used to cost verymuch. Governor of California Ronald Reagan didn't like the Vietnam War protests happening on University of California campuses and decided to change the university funding model to make students pay a lot more for their education and reduce the number of protesters. President Nixon saw this and asked for advice to stop college protests nationwide.
Let me know when they start doing this for graduate students.
On paper this sounds good but this sounds like another way to keep rich families rich. The only way to get into UT these days is have connections, or be really good at something like football or very high gpa. The high gpa and football people were already getting scholarships so guess who will get this new money? People that already had the money to pay for the school.
Did you miss the part where it only goes to families making under 100K? You got a funny definition of “rich”.
