Tuition-free program for teaching majors established

Tuition-free program for teaching majors established
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The tuition-coverage program joins a number of steps taken by Ashland University to ensure greater access to an affordable education.

                        

Ashland University has created the Eagle Opportunity Program, which will provide a tuition-free education to incoming, qualified students who major in teacher education for the 2019 fall semester.

As part of this program, Ashland University will ensure teacher-education students who qualify for Pell Grants — a key federal program for students with financial need — and family-income requirements receive an aid package that covers the full cost of tuition and mandatory fees.

“The university will provide institutional aid to close any gap that remains after Pell Grants, Ohio College Opportunity Grants and other gift aid awarded to these qualified students,” AU President Dr. Carlos Campo said. “This historic step in Ashland University’s focus on access and affordability is being made possible by an anonymous gift from an AU donor.”

Campo said Ashland University will offer this new program to new students and transfer students who qualify. “We are excited because this tuition-coverage program will help bring the dream of becoming a classroom teacher to many more deserving students across this country,” he said.

More information about the Eagle Opportunity Program is available at www.ashland.edu/eop.

“AU’s College of Education provides renowned education to future teachers and is recognized as one of the elite teacher-education schools in the country," said Dr. Donna Breault, dean of AU’s Schar College of Education. "The college is known for presenting outstanding opportunities for students to be out in the teaching field, starting as early as their freshman year. Educators across this state tell us they see a clear difference in our student teachers compared to those from other institutions.”

The tuition-coverage program joins a number of steps taken by Ashland University to ensure greater access to an affordable education. Other steps include resetting its tuition structure in 2013, which resulted in a reduction of more than $10,000 beginning with the 2014-15 academic year; freezing or approving minimal tuition and fee increases for undergraduate students for the past several years; and reducing tuition costs for a number of graduate programs as well as summer tuition costs.

“Addressing college costs and protecting college opportunity are defining issues of our time,” Campo said. “Ashland University is fully committed to being a leader in this effort.”


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