{"id":1865,"date":"2018-02-20T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2018-02-16T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T18:45:45","slug":"colleges-create-tuition-free-pathways-for-transfer-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/02\/20\/colleges-create-tuition-free-pathways-for-transfer-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleges Create Tuition-Free Pathways for Transfer Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1866\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1866\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TransferStudent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TransferStudent.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TransferStudent-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tuition-free college? It sounds too good to be true, but for some transfer students in Wisconsin and Oregon, it will soon be a reality.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Portland State University\u2019s \u201cTransfers Finish Free\u201d program will start in fall 2018. The\u00a0program will cover base tuition and mandatory fees for up to 15 credits per term to eligible transfer students, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdx.edu\/insidepsu\/portland-state-to-offer-free-tuition-for-eligible-transfer-students\">according to the<\/a> university.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for the program, students must be a current resident of Oregon, be admitted to PSU as a transfer student with a 2.5 or higher cumulative GPA, be eligible to receive a Pell Grant, and enroll full-time at PSU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want any deserving transfer student to be turned away from an opportunity to obtain a college degree because of their financial status,\u201d John Fraire, PSU\u2019s vice president for enrollment management and student services, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdx.edu\/insidepsu\/portland-state-to-offer-free-tuition-for-eligible-transfer-students\">said in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PSU does not plan to cap the number of students eligible for free tuition through the initiative<\/p>\n<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/uw-madison-unveils-buckys-tuition-promise-latest-commitment-to-state-students\/\">a similar program<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n<p>Under this program, called \u201cBucky\u2019s Tuition Promise,\u201d UW-Madison will cover two years of tuition and fees for transfer students from Wisconsin who come from families with annual household incomes of less than $56,000.<\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds of US colleges view transfer students as considerably important in meeting enrollment goals, according to NACAC\u2019s 2017\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/state-of-college-admission\/\">State of College Admission<\/a><\/em>\u00a0report. These new programs represent a unique approach to meeting this population\u2019s specific needs during the admission process.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\"><em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuition-free college? It sounds too good to be true, but for some transfer students in Wisconsin and Oregon, it will soon be a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-u5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}