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The governor announced that $62 million in new program funding included in the fiscal year 2024 budget she signed this summer will go toward expanding the MASSGrant Plus program.

A third of all UMass students will qualify for free tuition paid for by the new income surtax on the state's highest earners, under a plan the Healey administration rolled out Wednesday to spend an expansion of state financial aid.

A third of all UMass students will qualify for free tuition paid for by the new income surtax on the state’s highest earners, under a<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/big-college-aid-expansion-will-lift-25000-students/">Read More</a>

A third of all UMass students will qualify for free tuition paid for by the new income surtax on the state's highest earners, under a plan the Healey administration rolled out Wednesday to spend an expansion of state financial aid.

A third of all UMass students will qualify for free tuition paid for by the new income surtax on the state's highest earners, under a plan the Healey administration rolled out Wednesday to spend an expansion of state financial aid.

The $62 million in new program funding will go toward expanding the MASSGrant Plus program, which will benefit approximately 25,000 students attending the state's community colleges, state universities and the University of Massachusetts.

Students whose families earn between $73,000 to $100,000 annually in adjusted gross income will have their costs for tuition and mandatory instructional fees reduced by up to half of out-of-pocket

“When I first started at Washington University in St. Louis, the idea of it becoming need-blind wasn't even on the table,” said Lauren Chase, the former president of WU/Washington University for Undergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity (WU/FUSED).

Reducing the cost of licensing exams would help bolster the teaching ranks, Old Dominion University's Tammi Dice and former Chesapeake Superintendent Jim Roberts write in a guest column.

Since its launch in 2013, the initiative has grown to 34 students annually, and now will take a significant step forward to expand to 50 students per year.