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Alamo Colleges, A&M-San Antonio blaze free bachelor’s degree path

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First cohort will attend the local A&M campus in the fall under a partnership that extends a tuition-free offer that starts in high school.

Alamo Colleges District officials announced a partnership with Texas A&M University-San Antonio as their newest tool to break racial and economic barriers to higher education, pledging to open an affordable “pathway to the middle class.

San Antonio’s next president is from South Texas “It’s so important that we build bridges, we build pathways and as many points of entry as possible,” said Ochoa, whose mantra is that the students are collectively the university’s “north star.” At his South Side campus, 80% of the arriving transfer students are from the Alamo Colleges, he said. Seventy percent of the university’s students are first-generation, and 98% receive some form of financial assistance.

 

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