PHOENIX
Arizona State University has helped as many as 200 illegal immigrants obtain private scholarships this semester to help pay for higher out-of-state tuition that voters approved in a state referendum, university President Michael Crow said.
Crow said ASU has set up a program to help students who have graduated from state high schools pay the higher tuition required under voter-approved Proposition 300. The aid has gone to 150 to 200 students, and based on his estimate the total money provided is about $1.8 million.
“These are students showing up with Arizona high-school diplomas,” Crow said during a speech at a leadership-awards luncheon Friday put on by the nonprofit Valle del Sol, Inc. in Phoenix. “Some of these students don’t have immigration status. We say, ‘OK, you went to an Arizona high school,’ so . . . we work it out in the financial-aid calculator.”
The program uses private money already in the university’s coffers, Crow said.
