{"id":1071135,"date":"2021-11-03T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1071135"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:36:01","slug":"four-year-free-ride-for-inaugural-ut-tyler-medical-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1071135","title":{"rendered":"Four-year free ride for inaugural UT Tyler medical students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/uttylerlogo-1-175x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1071136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/uttylerlogo-1-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/uttylerlogo-1-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/uttylerlogo-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/uttylerlogo-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler-based R.W. Fair Foundation is donating $4 million so students in the inaugural class at UT Tyler&#8217;s Medical School can get free tuition for all four years of study.  The announcement from the foundation&#8217;s Bob Garrett came Wednesday in a news conference streamed live by our news partner KETK. 40 students will be in the class. Garrett said, &#8220;This gift provides us with the rare opportunity to combine all the pillars of our mission into a single focus that will, first, help address some of the worst measurable health outcomes in our state, particularly in rural East Texas.&#8221; Garrett was introduced by UT Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife, who termed the announcement &#8220;incredible.&#8221; Eltife thanked the foundation on behalf of the Regents &#8212; noting, &#8220;To our knowledge, we have never had a medical school launched in the state of Texas that received legislative approval in the very first session requested.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler-based R.W. Fair Foundation is donating $4 million so students in the inaugural class at UT Tyler&#8217;s Medical School can get free tuition for all four years of study. The announcement from the foundation&#8217;s Bob Garrett came Wednesday in a news conference streamed live by our news partner KETK. 40 students will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1071135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four-year free ride for inaugural UT Tyler medical students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1071139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/uttylerlogo-1-175x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Four-year free ride for inaugural UT Tyler medical students","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 10:25:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/uttylerlogo-1-175x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Four-year free ride for inaugural UT Tyler medical students","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071465,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071135\/revisions\/1071465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}