{"id":1101970,"date":"2022-02-24T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1101970"},"modified":"2022-02-25T13:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:42:03","slug":"ut-tyler-included-as-ut-regents-establish-tuition-assistance-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1101970","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler included as UT regents establish tuition assistance endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/uttylerlogo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1101974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/uttylerlogo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/uttylerlogo-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/uttylerlogo-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/uttylerlogo.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>AUSTIN &#8212; UT Tyler is included as the UT System Board of Regents and Chancellor James B. Milliken announce the creation of a $300 million endowment to help undergraduate students at UT institutions pay for college. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Promise Plus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d program will provide tuition assistance to eligible students at seven UT institutions: UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UT El Paso, UT Permian Basin, UT Rio Grande Valley, UT San Antonio and UT Tyler. In 2019, regents created a $167 million endowment to provide a significant increase in tuition support for students at UT Austin, according to a news release. The funding was generated by what officials term a series of prudent investments by UT System financial officers that produced higher-than-expected returns over the past fiscal year.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are committed to increasing the affordability of a college education for more Texans by lowering the out-of-pocket cost of a UT degree for qualified students,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Board Chairman Kevin P. Eltife said as quoted in a news release. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is an investment in our students, in public higher education, and the state of Texas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; UT Tyler is included as the UT System Board of Regents and Chancellor James B. Milliken announce the creation of a $300 million endowment to help undergraduate students at UT institutions pay for college. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Promise Plus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d program will provide tuition assistance to eligible students at seven UT institutions: UT Arlington, UT Dallas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1101970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler included as UT regents establish tuition assistance endowment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1101981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/uttylerlogo-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler included as UT regents establish tuition assistance endowment","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 09:52:07","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\/2022\/02\/uttylerlogo-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler included as UT regents establish tuition assistance endowment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101970","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=1101970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106778,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101970\/revisions\/1106778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}