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Senate advances tuition-waiver amendment to boost campus diversity
Summary
SB 170 would allow Utah public institutions to waive the non-resident portion of tuition for a small, selective group of nonresident students to support campus diversity; the Senate put the bill on the third-reading calendar after a 26-0 roll-call.
Senator Lyle Hilliard outlined SB 170 as a targeted measure to preserve campus diversity by permitting institutions to waive the non-resident portion of tuition for a small, selective group of students. "We face a tremendous pressure of growing student enrollment, and 1 of the key driving systems in higher education is that of access," Hilliard told colleagues.
Hilliard said institutions have used…
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