By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-25 12:12:15 | Updated at 2024-11-26 19:37:05
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University of Texas System announces free tuition for students whose families earn $100K or less
NBC News ^ | Nov. 22, 2024 | Marlene Lenthang
Posted on 11/25/2024 3:18:46 AM PST by fwdude
The University of Texas System announced Wednesday it will expand its free tuition program for lower-income families to include all families making $100,000 or less a year.
The Board of Regents gave preliminary approval to the plan, which is an expansion of its Promise Plus program. The free tuition for undergraduate students will begin in the fall of 2025 and will cover tuition and fees.
In a press release the UT System said the move will make it one of the few in the U.S. to offer “such a sweeping financial aid benefit.”
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: education
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Well, most of these degrees are worthless anyway.
1 posted on 11/25/2024 3:18:46 AM PST by fwdude
To: fwdude
Taxpayers pay all. Non-taxpayers free. Punishment for productive people. You’ll own nothing and love it
2 posted on 11/25/2024 3:21:12 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
To: fwdude
“Free” just means someone else is paying for it.
Beyond that, everyone should have at least a little skin in the game. Reduced tuition is actually much better than no tuition.
3 posted on 11/25/2024 3:24:53 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
To: fwdude
The tuition is not free.
The students may not pay for it, but taxpayers do.
4 posted on 11/25/2024 3:27:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: Leaning Right
This is a jobs program for Big Ed.
5 posted on 11/25/2024 3:27:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: Jan_Sobieski
and more fodder for the marxist propaganda machine, free comes with a price. for the free you will follow our program for the not so free(taxpayers) you will be footing the bill
To: fwdude
I’m glad I paid for my degree from A&M rather than some crap from t.u. anyway.
7 posted on 11/25/2024 3:40:01 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
To: fwdude
Do students have to be citizens or legal residents to get this UT free tuition?
IOW — Can illegal alien squatters get in on this deal?
8 posted on 11/25/2024 3:44:07 AM PST by dennisw
To: fwdude
Definitely agree that students should be paying some-—At least half sounds right to me.
9 posted on 11/25/2024 3:45:13 AM PST by dennisw
To: Jan_Sobieski
A lot of people are hard workers who make under 100K. These are being paid by endorsements. It’s about time they spend that money.
10 posted on 11/25/2024 3:47:06 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
To: napscoordinator
Who is paying all the tuitions for under 100K families?
11 posted on 11/25/2024 3:51:05 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
To: Jan_Sobieski
“Who is paying all the tuitions for under 100K families?”
Hopefully, a massive endowment fund.
More likely, they’re raising the price of other student. So that would be welfare and socialism.
12 posted on 11/25/2024 3:59:19 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (🎶 They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. 🎶)
To: dennisw
IOW Isle of Wright
TLA’s suck.
13 posted on 11/25/2024 4:02:32 AM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
To: MikeSteelBe
Agreed. I worked full time the entire time I was in college getting my BS In computer science.
14 posted on 11/25/2024 4:06:11 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Leaning Right
You and I think a lot alike. But in my opinion, the best way to have “reduced tuition” is to get the taxpayers out of it and put the entire burden on the students and their families. Prices will go back down, and students will be more likely to ensure that the education that they’re buying is actually worth buying.
And it didn’t kill me working full time the whole time I was in college.
15 posted on 11/25/2024 4:11:20 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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