{"id":1107149,"date":"2022-03-14T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1107149"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:32:01","slug":"more-details-on-300-million-ut-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1107149","title":{"rendered":"More details on $300 million UT endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/03\/kevin-p-eltife_photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1106780\" \/>TYLER &#8212; University of Texas officials visit Tyler to share details about a recently-announced $300 million endowment for seven institutions to help students pay for college.  As far as what it means locally, Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife says &#8220;perpetually, ongoing, a million dollars a year in additional tuition money, scholarship money, to the University of Texas at Tyler &#8212; which means anyone with an adjusted gross income of $80,000 or less can go to (the) University of Texas at Tyler with their tuition and fees covered&#8230;We supplement all the other grants that are out there. Also&#8230;we think this means about an additional 200 students will now be able to attend the University of Texas at Tyler and won&#8217;t have an issue with financial problems getting in.&#8221; <!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>Eltife says it&#8217;s about fighting student debt.  He tells KTBB, &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to tackle the student debt on the front end by lowering the cost of tuition.  We&#8217;re doing this across all our institutions across the state to make tuition affordable for the students of Texas.&#8221; The new program is known as Promise Plus.  Officials say it will expand UT Tyler&#8217;s Reach Higher Scholarship program, renamed Patriot Promise in future academic years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; University of Texas officials visit Tyler to share details about a recently-announced $300 million endowment for seven institutions to help students pay for college. As far as what it means locally, Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife says &#8220;perpetually, ongoing, a million dollars a year in additional tuition money, scholarship money, to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1107149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More details on $300 million UT endowment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1107153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/03\/kevin-p-eltife_photo-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"More details on $300 million UT endowment","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107149","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 06:23:23","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\/03\/kevin-p-eltife_photo-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"More details on $300 million UT endowment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107149","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=1107149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107180,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107149\/revisions\/1107180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}