President Ono announced at the University of Michigan Board of Regents meeting that the university is expanding its Go Blue Guarantee, raising household income eligibility thresholds so that nearly 2,200 additional in‑state undergraduate students will qualify for a full tuition guarantee.

The guarantee’s previous eligibility thresholds were described during the meeting as $75,000 for the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses and $65,000 for the Flint campus. President Ono said the expansion will enable “nearly 2,200 additional in state current undergraduate students to qualify for tuition free education” across Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint and that “by next fall, more than 10,000 students will have received the full tuition guarantee since the initiative began.”

Regent Bernstein, who said he was at the table when the original guarantee was announced, called the expansion “an extraordinary commitment to the state” and praised the administration for finding a way to make it happen. Several other regents including Regent Illich and members of the administration voiced strong support, noting the program’s role in increasing socioeconomic and racial diversity on campus.

Angelica Priviero, president of Rackham Student Government, later cited campus data showing increases in underrepresented student enrollment and urged the board to protect the broader set of diversity, equity and inclusion programs that she said underpin gains such as those achieved by the Go Blue Guarantee.

University officials who presented the expansion did not provide a line‑item funding breakdown at the meeting. The administration described the action as an expansion of an existing program rather than a new board policy, and regents said they had discussed funding sources with administrators. Details on the precise new income thresholds and the fiscal plan for sustaining the expansion were not specified in the public remarks recorded at the meeting.

The board did not take a separate formal vote on the Go Blue expansion during the public session; regents expressed public support for the announcement and then proceeded to the consent and business agenda.