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The University of Texas System Board of Regents voted unanimously on Tuesday to establish a $160 million endowment, drawing from the state's Permanent University Fund to begin the program in the fall of 2020. Here's what you need to know. Tuition-Free College Program The University of Texas System Board of Regents voted unanimously to create a $160 million endowment that will: Completely cover tuition and fees for students from families that earn up to $65,000 a year who have financial need, and Provide some assured tuition support to students from families with incomes of up to $125,000 who have financial need. The University estimates that about 8,600 students will receive free tuition annually, and 5,700 will receive support. To benefit from the program, students must be residents of Texas; be full-time, first-time undergraduates; maintain a 2.0 GPA; and demonstrate a financial need.   The endowment — which includes money from oil and gas royalties earned on state-owned lan...

California's prison inmates are getting bachelor's degrees No girls, parties, cellphones Eduaction News A plan that allows incarcerated people to take classes from state colleges helps lower recidivism–and the prison classes often have higher GPAs than the students on the outside. Arrowood is one of the beneficiaries of California’s policy to provide face-to-face higher education classes in almost all of its prisons. Prisoners were restricted to correspondence courses until a law passed in 2014 allowing in-person classes. That year, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports, the number of successfully completed college classes jumped to 13,301 from the previous year’s 5,725. By 2017, about 4,500 prisoners were enrolled in community college and universities with tuition paid for by taxpayers through a state financial aid program, up from zero prisoners in 2014.  While other states have some prisons that offer in-person education, California is the only...