Sentences with phrase «tuition scholarship program»

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While the teaching fellows program is coming to an end, House lawmakers passed a bill this session that would create another tuition scholarship program aimed at getting high achieving students committed to teaching in North Carolina into hard to staff schools and subject areas.

The Kalamazoo Promise, a full - tuition scholarship program announced in 2005, created a stir in the city when it launched the following year.

He got juvenile justice reform, he got a free SUNY tuition scholarship program.

Not exact matches

An additional $ 500 tuition grant, with $ 250 applied to the third course and the last course of an undergraduate certificate program when using the MyCAA Scholarship.

WBENC is proud to offer the Dorothy B. Brothers Scholarship to its Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) as an opportunity to receive up to $ 11,000 in tuition to attend some of the best executive education programs in the country.

In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

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.

Now in its ninth year, the Best Teen Chef Competition awards more than $ 250,000 in tuition scholarships for degree programs at The Art Institutes to high - school seniors in the U.S. and Canada.

Scholarships can be used to cover admission / tuition, materials, transportation and / or lodging for any regional conferences or workshops, any educational opportunities offered by your local extension offices, and other approved programs.

Wunder is majoring in engineering and the program provided a full tuition and housing scholarship.

Today the P.O.W.T program has helped over 30,000 families access millions of dollars of endowment scholarships for college tuition.

The timing of the Excelsior Scholarship Program has created confusion on college campuses around the state as students and their parents submit deposits on so - called «decision day» without knowing if they've qualified for the first - in - the - nation free tuition plan.

A key question about the state's new tuition - free scholarship program for students attending the State University of New York is what it will mean for kids in Buffalo.

Cuomo's free SUNY tuition Internet portal went live yesterday, with 3,200 students applying for a new scholarship program described as both a bold move and one that may be flawed from the start.

About 32,000 students would benefit from the tuition - free scholarship program for SUNY colleges, the Cuomo administration projects.

Would make students without lawful immigration status eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship, the Tuition Assistance Program, the Enhanced Tuition Award, and other State financial assistance programs offered to college students who are New York State residents.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the tuition - free program — a «last - dollar» scholarship that picks up whatever tuition TAP and PELL don't cover — is one of the proudest accomplishments of his tenure.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill earlier this month and created a scholarship program that makes state public universities tuition - free for families making up to $ 125,000 annually.

Roughly two - thirds of those who applied won't get help from Cuomo's Excelsior Scholarship free tuition program; the state anticipated that 23,000 people would benefit, but 75,000 people applied for $ 87 million in funding.

A few weeks after approval of the «free» college tuition program he opposes, Medaille College President Kenneth Macur asked staff at the college to see if any web domain names with Excelsior Scholarship in them were still available.

The «Excelsior Scholarship Program» would provide tuition - free college for students accepted to two - and four - year colleges at all state and city universities, with students from households earning $ 100,000 annually eligible in fall of 2017, ramping up to $ 110,000 in 2018 and $ 125,000 in 2019.

The compromise would have yoked the Dream Act — which provides tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — to the tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarships as well as public school programs.

Democratic Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda of the Bronx also backs a bill to make DACA recipients eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship free state college tuition program.

The second bill would make recipients eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship program without needing to apply and qualify for the state Tuition Assistance or Education Opportunities programs.

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.

ALBANY, N.Y. >> Gov. Andrew Cuomo's free SUNY tuition Internet portal went live Wednesday, with 3,200 students applying for a new scholarship program described as both a bold move and one that may be flawed from the start.

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

In an exit interview with Capitol Correspondent Karen DeWitt, Zimpher spoke about the details and potential drawbacks of the new Excelsior Scholarship program, which will offer free tuition to state colleges to some middle class students.

Unions offer tuition scholarships to members — many of whom are city workers — to upgrade their skills by taking CUNY labor courses in certificate, undergraduate or even master's degree programs.

Cuomo tucked a provision in his $ 168 billion budget plan that would amend state education law to make the undocumented students eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship program, which covers tuition costs for students from families with incomes of up to $ 125,000.

After unveiling it in January alongside Senator Bernie Sanders, Cuomo spent months pushing his Excelsior Scholarship program, which would make CUNY and State University of New York (SUNY) tuition - free for many students from middle - class families.

The program is a «last dollar» approach, meaning that it will cover the remaining tuition balance after all other scholarships and grants have been applied, and does not contribute anything towards non-tuition costs like books and housing, which often form the majority of student costs given that CUNY and SUNY already have relatively low tuition.

At 10 a.m., the Assembly holds a public hearing on the Excelsior Scholarship and the Enhanced Tuition Awards programs, Legislative Office Building, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Albany.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is declaring victory now that the Legislature approved a budget that will include a tuition - free scholarship program for low and middle income families.

The fine print of the program indicates students who will receive those scholarship dollars must remain in New York State after graduating for the same number of years they received the tuition.

One of her signature programs while the club's president was a scholarship program developed in tandem with the City University of New York to provide a full year's tuition to an LGBTQ student interested in a government and public policy career.

It was the first major hearing on the state's free tuition program, known as the Excelsior Scholarship, since its much - heralded launch this summer.

«There will be no effect or disruption in any way on the educational experience at SUNY Poly including academic programs, student services, tuition, scholarships, campus life, athletics, or facilities,» Liapis said.

The Excelsior Scholarship program will cover tuition costs for residents attending the state's SUNY and CUNY public university system, whose family household income is less than $ 100,000 this year.

In addition, following enactment in the final budget of legislation that makes for - profit colleges eligible for the state's Enhanced Tuition Awards and STEM Scholarship programs regardless of their record on student loan debt and employment outcomes, stronger quality controls and student protections are essential.»

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

New York students from families making $ 125,000 or less will be eligible for free college tuition under Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Excelsior Scholarship Program.

Less than a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo showed his commitment to public higher education by launching the Excelsior Scholarships free tuition program, he has undermined the very university system students would attend.

The top education advisor in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Tuesday touted the newest college affordability program, the Excelsior Scholarship, during a legislative hearing on tuition aid and assistance.

More than 22,000 students across the state received the Excelsior Scholarship, a program that covers tuition for full - time students at New York's public colleges and universities, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Fall 2017: New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Excelsior Scholarship program will provide four - year, tuition - free college for students attending state public colleges.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Assembly budget would include the New York State DREAM Act and invest $ 27 million to provide eligible immigrant students with access to the state's Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), scholarships and opportunity programs.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo scored a major policy victory in this year's budget with the passage of his Excelsior Scholarship program, which most news accounts described simply as free college tuition for middle - class students.

Making the tuition plan a scholarship instead of an entitlement program will allow the state to make changes moving forward, including cutbacks, NYPIRG's Horner said.