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Rutgers Offering Hand to N.J. Community College Grads

122315_RutgersRutgers University-Newark announced a new financial aid initiative on Thursday designed to make the college more affordable to students with a two-year degree from New Jersey colleges and Newark residents. The three-part program, called Talent & Opportunity Pathways program (RU-N to the TOP), will cover tuition and fees for students who are accepted to the university and have a household income of less than $60,000, effective fall 2016.

 

With this announcement, Rutgers joins a host of institutions and cities across the nation that are making college more affordable to qualified students in the surrounding area.

 

The new initiative is intended to be an investment in the talent to be found in the city of Newark and New Jersey community colleges, said Peter T. Englot, senior vice chancellor for public affairs and chief of staff.

 

“We are an institution that really understands that our future is inextricably intertwined with the future of Newark as a city,” Englot said. “We view ourselves as an anchor institution in Newark and that means we understand ourselves to be about, to a substantial degree, community capacity building.”

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