Bates, Bowdoin, UMaine System to Help Katrina’s Victims
AUGUSTA, Maine
Some Maine colleges are offering free or tuition or in-state rates to students whose plans to study this fall have been interrupted by Hurricane Katrina.
The University of Maine System is offering expedited admission and in-state tuition to students from Maine or elsewhere whose college classes were terminated or postponed because of hurricane damages.
UMS trustees Chairman Charles “Wick” Johnson, who made the announcement last week in Gov. John Baldacci’s office, said the visiting students will be allowed to enroll without following the usual application process and will receive in-state tuition.
The university will also accommodate housing, health care, counseling and financial needs of the “visiting students.”
Johnson said UMaine’s offer is part of a national effort to help hurricane-affected students. He said five students had already contacted Maine’s seven-campus university system about the offer.
