UNO TOPS Students Get Tuition Paid, Others Will Owe 58%

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith

Published November 17, 2016 at 11:32 AM EST

TUITION AWARD CUT - Louisiana is having to cut back its TOPS tuition award program to help offset budget deficit.

SPRING SEMESTER TOPS COST MORE -- Some 50,000 Louisiana Students with TOPS Tuition will have to pay out-of-pocket for their spring semester as the state will cut 42% from the program. This will be the first time in the TOPS tuition program's history where students will have to pay for tuition. Governor John Bel Edwards says these cutbacks could have been avoided. He's going to ask the legislature to address this issue when they reconvene this spring.

LOUISIANA TOPS TUITION CUTS FOR 2017 - Spring semester is going to be tougher on some 50,000 Louisiana students who have TOPS tuition.

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.

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