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.
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
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.
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.
Let me know when they start doing this for graduate students.
This is pretty neat. Did not expect this at all. Going to look into it more.
I guess at least you won’t be paying to get screwed, that’s a pretty significant upgrade from most universities.
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.
Your point on addtional costs stands, but it looks like the 35 Million isn’t the wh9le picture.
Unless I’m misreading the article this program is, rather than new, an extension and expansion of their previous 2019 tuition assistance plan.
In 2019, the Regents established a $167 million endowment at UT Austin to fully cover tuition and mandatory fees for in-state undergraduate students from families earning less than $65,000, and cover the majority of tuition fees for families earning up to $125,000.
In 2022, the Regents extended the program to all UT academic institutions with a second endowment of nearly $300 million, known as “Promise Plus.”
I didn’t see the details of this new plan but extrapolating, they still offer reduced or dismissed fees on a sliding income scale.
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!
You dropped your /s
Read his comment history. That’s kind of his thing.
So he’s a dropper. Got it.
So…you’re just an asshole then?
