Brown Tuition Leniency Helps 360 Students
Last fall, Brown University offered leniency to students with outstanding tuition payments, a policy that has helped around 360 students this semester, the Brown Daily Herald reports. Typically, students are not allowed to preregister for spring classes if they owe the university more than $1,000, but a tough economic climate prompted Brown officials to make exceptions this year for hundreds of students.
Additionally, around 40 students with more than $5,000 in outstanding payments were allowed to remain enrolled despite rules that would have prohibited them from living in dorms or attending class. Ten more with dues of more than $7,500 were allowed to stay enrolled after working closely with financial aid officials.
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Finally some understanding and civility
This would have been nice when I was there. Most years I started classes owing about $300 out of $5K to $10K tuition (it changed that much while I was there), and it took a month to scrounge up the remaining funds. During that time I received both written and verbal hostility from the Bursar's office, threatening to terminate my meal contract and other student privileges. It got to the point that I contemplated bringing 30,000 pennies up in a wheelbarrow and dumping them on the floor.
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