U-M (Michigan) changes tuition policy for military families

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Detroit Free Press

U-M changes tuition policy for military families

July 20, 2007

BY KRISTEN JORDAN SHAMUS

FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER

The University of Michigan has changed its policy regarding military personnel and their dependents, allowing students like Joshua Guedesse of Monroe to attend at the reduced in-state tuition rate.

The Free Press first told Guedesse’s story in May, shedding light on a loophole in the school’s rules that wouldn’t give him the lower, in-state tuition rate of roughly $10,500, even though he attended high school and community college in Michigan.
The reason: Guedesse’s father is in the Coast Guard, and he was transferred to Illinois last summer.

Under the new guidelines, which take effect in the fall of 2007, active-duty military personnel, their spouses and dependents can get a waiver that will provide them with the in-state tuition rate, even if the military transfers the employee out of Michigan, as long as the dependent is at least a junior in high school when the parent is transferred and the dependent remains enrolled in a full-time high school or an institute of higher education in the state.


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Ten thousand-five hundred dollars for IN-STATE undergrad tuition?

All I can say is I remember California colleges with free tuition for CA residents.

The terms "rich" and "well educated" will soon be synonymous.

[Bozita]

1. Check this graphic from the Detroit News

http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20070720&Category=UPDATE&ArtNo=707200441&Ref=V2&Profile=1361Q=100&MaxW=500

And, ... what was it that Jefferson said about democracy requiring an informed electorate?

[Demeter]

3. More Proof That the US Is No Longer a Democracy of Any Kind.

[Demeter]

2. U of M Is Not the Typical Michigan State College

It's a hybrid beast: part wannabe Ivy League, part big 10, part state-supported. Parts of it are excellent, parts are far too snooty for its own good or its record. With Pfizer pulling the plug, Ann Arbor is a one-company town, and that company is the University.

And if you really want to weep, I attended college in Massachusetts when tuition was $200/year at the state schools. On scholarship.

[SayWhatYo]

4. Damn, $200/yr?

:(

I wish someone, anyone, would make education something everyone can easily handle... Financially wise of course, not academically.

[Demeter]

5. It Was 30 years ago

Hard to believe those were the good old days--'cause they weren't really that good. Just cheaper.

[brentspeak]

6. UMichigan was popular with a lot of kids from my NJ high school

The town I grew up in was/is notoriously snooty, so if there's a snoot factor at UMichigan, you can bet some of it was imported from my high school.