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Alamo Colleges introduced its free-tuition program AlamoPROMISE in 2020. Twenty-five San Antonio high schools participated. The district is now inviting high-school seniors of the class of 2021 to "save a seat" for next year's no-cost-college cohort.
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More students than expected are enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio this fall, defying state and national predictions that economic uncertainty and a preference for the traditional college experience would cause fewer students to enroll during the coronavirus pandemic.
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San Antonio’s community college system is launching a new free tuition program this year called AlamoPROMISE. Several other cities, including Dallas, Tyler and Houston have similar Promise programs.Launching the program during a pandemic has been a challenge, but it has also shown how much the scholarship is needed.
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On this week’s Petrie Dish, we take a look at what universities are doing to accommodate COVID-19, how students are responding and how local communities are affected.
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Trinity University has agreed to meet the full financial need of San Antonio Independent School District students admitted to the university.The agreement signed earlier this week includes tuition, room, board, books and fees — an estimated cost of more than $62,000 a year. Some of that cost may be covered by work study and federally subsidized loans.
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Texas A&M University-San Antonio is offering a new scholarship for high-performing students. The Achiever Promise scholarship provides free tuition to students in the top 10% of their class and students with at least 30 hours of dual credit.The new scholarship is supported by a $100 million diversity fund from the Texas A&M System. Each of the system’s 11 universities were given the freedom to tailor the scholarship to help their school “look more like Texas.”
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From Texas Standard : Certain skills can give students an edge when it comes to getting noticed by a university. Often, those skills are related to...
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In Sameer Pandya’s Members Only, Raj Bhatt is an immigrant now well immersed in his life in California. He has a wonderful wife and children, a good job…
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Robert Wagstaff died of COVID-19 April 10, before he could finish his accounting degree at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. He was 30 years old.Family…
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When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. in the spring, it robbed many high school seniors of important milestones such as prom and graduation, and…