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A Record-Setting Year for Tennessee Promise

Inside Higher Ed

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission announced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program saw a record number of applicants—more than 670,000—from the Class of 2025. The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students.

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One free tuition program is shattering enrollment records

University Business

Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar scholarship program that kicks in after a graduating high school student receives aid through the Pell Grant and other state grants, drew over 67,000 applicants this year. It quickly inspired a wake of last-dollar scholarship programs across Oregon, New York and Rhode Island, according to The Tennessean.

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Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The fanfare surrounding the decline in enrollments among students of color at elite schools partly reflects the medias preoccupation with elite education in the US. A 2015 ABA report found that on average law schools receive 69% of revenue from tuition, with 25% of schools receiving at least 88% of their revenue from tuition.

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“Too good to be true” – the young Africans receiving international scholarships

The PIE News

So when he received a fully-funded scholarship to study over 3,000 miles away at the University of Edinburgh, he couldn’t believe it – and, at first, his family didn’t. “My Ngwambe is one of the nearly 45,000 young Africans who has received a scholarship from the Mastercard Foundation. My mum thought it was a scam,” he laughs. “It

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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My hope is to continue to transform lives through higher education.” Funds to establish the program will support two students per year with full room and board scholarships for their first two years on campus. It means a great deal to me and my family to be able to give back to take the university to the next level.

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Tennessee College-Going Rate on the Rise

Inside Higher Ed

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently reported the largest year-over-year increase in the state’s college-going rate since the 2015 launch of Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for community college students.

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Weekend Reading: Rethinking the Cost of Higher Education – A Lecture Revisited

HEPI

More than eleven years later, we revisit his lecture to consider what lessons it holds for today’s higher education sector. John Denham, March 2025 RSA Lecture The Cost of Higher Education Good evening. But if I dont challenge at least some current assumptions about how we fund and deliver higher education I shall have failed.