Posted on 07/12/2019 11:15:34 AM PDT by bgill
In an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow Wednesday, Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave a shout out to the University of Texas for its recent announcement promising free tuition to University of Texas at Austin students whose annual household income is less than $65,000.
Sanders joined Maddow on her show to discuss the 2020 race as well as the spread of his progressive policy ideas among his fellow candidates and across the country...
The goal of this new plan by the UT Board of Regents is to make higher education more accessible for middle and low-income students. In-state undergraduate students and in-state transfer students can qualify for the free tuition and they won’t be required to take out loans or pay back the funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
I’d be majorly PO’d if I earned $66,000.
If it is “free”, then maybe the students will get what they paid for: 4 wasted years of life and useless degrees that will help them get good paying minimum wage jobs at Starbucks.
Those families making more than $65,000 will see a drastic tuition increase.
"our income is waaaaay less than $65k."
I would have suggested the you consider the Pell Grant.
Most Pell Grants are awarded to students whose families make less than $30,000 annually
Some Pell Grants are awarded to students whose families make $30,000-$60,000 annually
It's possible but rare for students to be awarded the grant if their families make more than $60,000 annually
https://blog.prepscholar.com/pell-grant-eligibility-and-requirements-do-you-qualify
Knowing that they have this policy, and that they are shifting these costs to people who are paying, I would not allow my child to attend this ... school.
Sounds great....they should try this at Burlington College.
Couldn’t. Had already scrimped and saved for a college fund. Of course, if we’d been smart and not saved a dime, we’d have been better off.
“University of Texas at Austin”
One of the many liberal cancerous tumors attacking Texas.
Welfare for $65K or less
Nothing more than a scheme to make some people pay for others.
If they were honest, they wouldn’t be saying “Free tuition.” They would be saying “Earn less than 65k? someone earning over that will be paying the bill so you don’t have to pay.”
and you would be amazed at how many people/families in Texas would all of a sudden have less than $65,000 incomes.
There are so many ways to hide income. The rich are experts at it.
I know a former colleague whose father engaged in some very sophisticated financial manipulation to hide income and assets so that she and her brother would be able to get a nearly-free ride at an elite college.
In a couple of years half the families in Texas will be earning $64,900 on paper. Bank on it.
I wonder how the four recent Board of Regent appointees, by Gov Abbott, voted on this?
Was it a unanimous vote?
From March....
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appointed new regents to the University of Texas System Board of Regents this Thursday, according to the Office of the Governor’s website. Appointments are awaiting approval by the Texas Senate.
The Board of Regents is the System’s governing body, comprised of nine members from across the state. These members are appointed by the governor for six-year terms with one student regent serving a one-year term.
They make decisions about academic, health and business affairs for all of the System’s institutions.
The newly-appointed members — Nolan Perez, Christina Melton Crain, Jodie Lee Jiles and Kelcy Warren — are all UT System alumni.....
Progressives: being generous with other people’s money rather than reaching into their own pockets is just how they roll.
Yea!
Burlington College is still tuition free!
You could have just said “Austin”.
Smart students will avoid this college like the plague.
It is certain to now sink.
We wished that fortune had been paid to A&M instead.
An out of state kid moves in, declares residency and an income of less than 65k. This is how you beat the system and why “free” stuff doesn’t work.
How about mandatory fees? When Florida went to their pre-paid tuition program I sighed up right away for our daughter, then in the 8th grade. Then at registration we found out that tuition had actually been lowered, but mandatory fees had skyrocketed!
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