\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTemple University is raising tuition by 3.4% for both in-state and out-of-state students and plans to lay off about 40 employees, less than 1% of its workforce, as part of its $1.3 billion operating budget for the next fiscal year. Even with the tuition increase, the university is projected to face a $25 million budget deficit. PASSHE pledgeMeanwhile, Pennsylvania\u2019s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is launching the statewide “PASSHE Pledge,” a last-dollar scholarship initiative. The program will cover remaining tuition costs for in-state undergraduate students who receive both a federal Pell Grant and a Pennsylvania state grant. Under the pledge, eligible students across all 10 PASSHE universities will pay no out-of-pocket tuition costs after federal, state, and institutional aid is applied. The initiative begins in the fall of 2027. The PASSHE Board of Governors also voted to increase tuition by $172 per semester for in-state undergraduate students for the upcoming school year. The new tuition rate will be just over $4,000 per semester.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Temple University is raising tuition by 3.4% for both in-state and out-of-state students and plans to lay off about 40 employees, less than 1% of its workforce, as part of its $1.3 billion operating budget for the next fiscal year. <\/p>\n
Even with the tuition increase, the university is projected to face a $25 million budget deficit. <\/p>\n
PASSHE pledge<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania\u2019s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is launching the statewide “PASSHE Pledge,” a last-dollar scholarship initiative. The program will cover remaining tuition costs for in-state undergraduate students who receive both a federal Pell Grant and a Pennsylvania state grant. <\/p>\n
Under the pledge, eligible students across all 10 PASSHE universities will pay no out-of-pocket tuition costs after federal, state, and institutional aid is applied. The initiative begins in the fall of 2027. <\/p>\n
The PASSHE Board of Governors also voted to increase tuition by $172 per semester for in-state undergraduate students for the upcoming school year. The new tuition rate will be just over $4,000 per semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temple University is raising tuition by 3.4% for both in-state and out-of-state students and plans to lay off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103079,103081,103082,103083,26945,103080,69,71,70,103084,10869],"class_list":["post-239672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-1-3-billion-operating-budget","tag-in-state-and-out-of-state-students","tag-last-dollar-scholarship-initiative","tag-next-fiscal-year","tag-passhe","tag-pennsylvanias-state-system-of-higher-education","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-raising-tuition","tag-temple-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}