UT - Free tuition for under 100K income families

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8:31a, 11/21/24
"Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually will get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas System, the board of regents announced Wednesday."

Wow, under 100K earners and the state university lets your kids attend for free. Unreal. Mixed feelings about this as a taxpayer because it seems like such an arbitrary cut off. I know the state can be arbitrary, but this arbitrary discrimination against one taxpayer vs another for something as significant as tuition is problematic. This is going to hurt the A&M system and all other private universities. Additionally two income families will be incentivized for one to quit a job, or "divorce" on paper. Could also have a positive effect on forcing other universities to make better use of their endowments.

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In reply to TinFoilHatPreacherBear • 9:10a, 11/21/24
TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
"Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually will get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas System, the board of regents announced Wednesday."

Wow, under 100K earners and the state university lets your kids attend for free. Unreal. Mixed feelings about this as a taxpayer because it seems like such an arbitrary cut off. I know the state can be arbitrary, but this arbitrary discrimination against one taxpayer vs another for something as significant as tuition is problematic. This is going to hurt the A&M system and all other private universities. Additionally two income families will be incentivized for one to quit a job, or "divorce" on paper. Could also have a positive effect on forcing other universities to make better use of their endowments.


Yea

At least it the Liberal-Left returning to economics instead of race (but of course you know the admins and faculty at ut-austin really wanted to discriminate against White people and Asians but Texas law prevented it)

I also agree the $100k is kind of strange. Stanford did something similar (probably where ut-austin stole the idea) but Stanford set the number at $150k in income.

In all truth ut-austin should spend some of that $42 billon system endowment on turning the other 8 universities in the UT system into 1st class education experiences on par with ut-austin

That would help low income kids and 1st gen. college kids in the State of Texas more.

Not everyone needs to be pushed into going to college in Austin (expensive to live, rent, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_System

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In reply to Redbrickbear • 11:05a, 11/21/24
Redbrickbear said:
TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
"Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually will get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas System, the board of regents announced Wednesday."

Wow, under 100K earners and the state university lets your kids attend for free. Unreal. Mixed feelings about this as a taxpayer because it seems like such an arbitrary cut off. I know the state can be arbitrary, but this arbitrary discrimination against one taxpayer vs another for something as significant as tuition is problematic. This is going to hurt the A&M system and all other private universities. Additionally two income families will be incentivized for one to quit a job, or "divorce" on paper. Could also have a positive effect on forcing other universities to make better use of their endowments.

In all truth ut-austin should spend some of that $42 billon system endowment on turning the other 8 universities in the UT system into 1st class education experiences on par with ut-austin
Idk, I've heard UT Dallas is ranked pretty high.
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In reply to Doc Holliday • 11:15a, 11/21/24
Doc Holliday said:
Redbrickbear said:
TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
"Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually will get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas System, the board of regents announced Wednesday."

Wow, under 100K earners and the state university lets your kids attend for free. Unreal. Mixed feelings about this as a taxpayer because it seems like such an arbitrary cut off. I know the state can be arbitrary, but this arbitrary discrimination against one taxpayer vs another for something as significant as tuition is problematic. This is going to hurt the A&M system and all other private universities. Additionally two income families will be incentivized for one to quit a job, or "divorce" on paper. Could also have a positive effect on forcing other universities to make better use of their endowments.

In all truth ut-austin should spend some of that $42 billon system endowment on turning the other 8 universities in the UT system into 1st class education experiences on par with ut-austin
Idk, I've heard UT Dallas is ranked pretty high.

They have done a pretty good job with that one.

But most of their other system schools have endowments only between $100-$200 million and not great facilities.

While the UT system has $40+ billion in assests.

They could do better across the board
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12:33p, 11/21/24
Just imagin all the money avaiable if universities shut down their ridiculously expensive football programs.

Whoops, entertainment must come first.

My mistake.
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In reply to TinFoilHatPreacherBear • 12:47p, 11/21/24
TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
"Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually will get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas System, the board of regents announced Wednesday."

Wow, under 100K earners and the state university lets your kids attend for free. Unreal. Mixed feelings about this as a taxpayer because it seems like such an arbitrary cut off. I know the state can be arbitrary, but this arbitrary discrimination against one taxpayer vs another for something as significant as tuition is problematic. This is going to hurt the A&M system and all other private universities. Additionally two income families will be incentivized for one to quit a job, or "divorce" on paper. Could also have a positive effect on forcing other universities to make better use of their endowments.

That is a really high income threshold for rural kids.

I bet 95% of kids in Chilton qualify for free school.
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1:27p, 11/21/24
I'll just make my kid an orphan when they graduate high school and adopt them after they graduate college.
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2:04p, 11/21/24
What if a family makes $105,000 a year?
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2:52p, 11/21/24


Not hard to figure out what this is about in a post affirmative action America...to allow UT to continue to discriminate against White and Asian students.
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In reply to Realitybites • 11:08p, 11/21/24
Realitybites said:


Not hard to figure out what this is about in a post affirmative action America...to allow UT to continue to discriminate against White and Asian students.


Yep, also keep in mind, from what I've seen anyway, it seems that there's no bias FOR Texans. There certainly should be.

If there is no preference for Texans, a California kid with a 0.05 better GPA could be accepted over a kid from a long time Texas taxpayer. Essentially smart kids from other states who want free tuition will displace smart Texan kids.
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5:30p, 12/9/24
Smart kids just attend Austin Community College for a year then transfer into UT.
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7:02p, 12/9/24
what's wrong with you bleeding hearts? Bet the govt isn't paying your kid's tuition. Tuition in general (particularly private schools) are way out of control.
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12:51p, 12/12/24
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In reply to J.R. • 12:59p, 12/12/24
J.R. said:
what's wrong with you bleeding hearts? Bet the govt isn't paying your kid's tuition. Tuition in general (particularly private schools) are way out of control.
Prices are out of control but offering free tuition to some folks isn't going to be the fix. The whole system needs to be replaced by something that fits our modern world. Most of the information taught in universities is free on the internet.
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In reply to hodedofome • 1:10p, 12/12/24
hodedofome said:
J.R. said:
what's wrong with you bleeding hearts? Bet the govt isn't paying your kid's tuition. Tuition in general (particularly private schools) are way out of control.
Prices are out of control but offering free tuition to some folks isn't going to be the fix. The whole system needs to be replaced by something that fits our modern world. Most of the information taught in universities is free on the internet.

Its one of the few industries that can actual engage in price freezing and be fine.

These public universities like UT all have huge billion dollar endowments and are tax exempt.

They should have the tuition frozen at $9k a year (like what Purdue University did) and then not be allowed to raise the price for undergrad except with the rate of inflation.

ut, aggy, tech, alabama, ou, ohio state, michigan, etc.

All these large State schools can educate a student for $9k a year....they can.....they just don't want to do that.
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In reply to Redbrickbear • 6:21p, 12/12/24
Which is why we just need to offer an extremely cheap alternative and put them out of business.
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