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.
Socialism in my Texas?!?! /s
It’s more likely than you think.
I wonder if anyone will get strategically divorced to stay under the limit.
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
University of Texas is progressive? What in the fuck is going on?
Meanwhile, in California, we fuck students in the ass with our prices and we don’t have free tuition.
If you’re a student moving to Texas because of this, I can’t even blame you at this point.
As someone who went there yes it is. It’s in austin too
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.
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”.
I guess at least you won’t be paying to get screwed, that’s a pretty significant upgrade from most universities.
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Let me know when they start doing this for graduate students.
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.
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.
Headline says tuition. Nothing else.
I AGREE with the Lawmakers who say that Public Institutions are NOT allowed to use their Money to Help Working Class Families!
