City’s tuition-free community college program wins $1M
The city’s Tuition-Free Community College Plan has been given a $1 million boost.
The city will use the money to pay for community college for low-income, eligible Boston residents pursuing an associate degree through the program. That will add 600 people to the 860 who already have gone through the program, Mayor Michelle Wu said.
“There’s absolutely no doubt that expanding this program with these federal dollars will serve a critical need within our community and help more students achieve their goals of earning a college degree,” U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley said.
Myron Adamson, a Bunker Hill Community College math major who wants to go on to earn a bachelor’s degree after he graduates, said this will “definitely lighten the load.”
The nation’s $1.7 trillion student debt crisis has disproportionately impacted black and brown…communities, Pressley said.
Boston’s Tuition-Free Community College Plan will lower costs for students while Pressley and other members of the House work with the Biden administration to pursue student debt cancellation, she said.
The $1 million Pressley secured can be used at Bunker Hill Community College and five other colleges: Roxbury Community College, Massasoit Community College, MassBay Community College, Urban College of Boston and Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology.
Wu said that the city already has received more than 200 applications for the fall 2022 semester. To apply, visit: owd.boston. gov/tfcc.