Saturday, January 13, 2024

N.Y. Senate, Assembly higher education committees push for tuition assistance reform - Jack Arpey, Spectrum1

A series of bills to fund and expand the state's Tuition Assistance Program were introduced Monday. It comes on the heels of SUNY enrollment increasing for the first time in a decade, but also amid major funding concerns over the next decade. The Tuition Assistance program is about to turn 50, and lawmakers say in the past half-century, it hasn’t kept pace with the changing realities of higher education in New York state.