Sentences with phrase «increasing tuition scholarships»

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In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

«The new scholarship may contribute to a modest increase in overall enrollment, but we believe it is more likely these funds will supplant tuition dollars already paid by students from middle - income families,» said Moody's Associate Managing Director Susan Fitzgerald.

The Higher Education Services Corporation, which runs the state's Excelsior Scholarship, Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) and other financial aid programs, would get an increase of $ 80 million — 7.3 percent — to $ 1.18 billion.

Mr. Cuomo has remained a polarizing figure, particularly among Democratic activists, even as he has increasingly shifted leftward in recent years, enacting a minimum - wage increase, paid family leave and free college tuition scholarships for middle - class families.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

But for the nation's more than 800 independent schools, according to school financial - aid officers meeting here recently, the increase in divorce among the parents of their tuition - paying students has spawned a perplexing new dilemma: When the «family» divides and multiplies, how do schools evaluate requests for scholarship...

Scholarships start at 65 percent of college tuition for students who enrolled in KPS in 9th grade and stay until graduation, and increase to 100 percent for students who have attended since kindergarten.

Included are: the biggest increase in Pell Grants in 20 years; $ 1,500 HOPE Scholarships to make the first two years of college universally available; a 20 % tuition tax credit for college juniors, seniors, graduate students and for working Americans pursuing lifelong learning to upgrade their skills; and the use of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) for educational savings.

The researchers found that when public schools were in close proximity to tuition - based schools attended by scholarship students, student achievement increased.

Place - based scholarship programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, in which all students graduating from specific high - poverty urban school districts qualify for free college tuition, also have been shown to increase high school outcomes and college matriculation (Bartik and Lachowska, 2012; Andrews, DesJardins and Ranchhod, 2010).

We are encouraged by the news of this settlement agreement, which mandates increased alumni participation on the Board and the development of a strategic plan to return to the School's founding tenet of providing full tuition scholarships to all admitted students.

«As the Free Education Committee works to identify a financial path toward full - tuition scholarships, we all can begin building a foundation of increased participation in giving, one that honors and supports the educational values alumni hold dear.

Board of Trustees adopts plan to return to tuition - free education for all undergraduates: scholarships to increase in 2 years as part of 10 - year plan.

«Under the approved plan, The Cooper Union will begin increasing undergraduate scholarships in as little as two years as part of a 10 - year timeline to generate the savings, expense reductions, fundraising, and other revenue increases necessary to sustainably provide full - tuition scholarships for every single Cooper Union undergraduate student,» Cooper Union Media Relations Manager Kim Newman said in a press release emailed to WSN.

Foremost among their concerns will be sustaining merit - based admissions, increasing accessibility for students from all backgrounds and, to the extent our resources allow, adding resources to the overall tuition scholarship.

The Cooper Union's traditional tuition scholarship has benefited all students who can attend, but has never sufficiently addressed students» increasing living expenses.

As part of that long - term commitment, we will set out to develop the resources that can allow us to increase student aid over time, augmenting need - based financial aid and ultimately perhaps even restoring the full tuition scholarship.

Their conclusion was that proceeding without instituting tuition was fiscally untenable, though Lincer allowed that «we will set out to develop the resources that can allow us to increase student aid over time, augmenting need - based financial aid and ultimately perhaps even restoring the full tuition scholarship.»

A future goal is to increase graduate program scholarships again after undergraduate scholarships have been increased to 100 percent of tuition.

We began with 21 early childhood educators taking courses to earn ECE associate degrees, providing them with (1) comprehensive scholarships to support tuition, books, and paid release time, (2) a scholarship counselor, (3) a wage increase, (4) a retention requirement, and (5) mandated employer buy - in.