That has helped the university hire first-rate professors and create a tuition-free honors college program that is drawing top students from city schools.
The Republican-controlled state House of Representatives earlier this year killed a bill that would have created a tuition rate for undocumented immigrants similar to what Metro State has put forth.
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"We've used that levy to create a massive tuition discount," Mr. Johnson explained.
A broad group of 280 private colleges and universities -- including most of the Ivy League, Stanford, Duke, Fairfield University in Connecticut and Texas Christian University -- is working with TIAA-CREF to create a prepaid tuition account to compete with the public universities that offer such plans.
"The decision by Metropolitan State College of Denver to proceed on its own to create a new tuition category, undeterred by the legislature's repeated rejection of specific authorizing legislation, is simply not supported by governing law," Mr. Suthers said in a statement at the time.
Metropolitan State College of Denver recently announced that they would create a new tuition rate for undocumented students.
To that end, they've created a full tuition scholarship for three female-identifying MFA students through a new Barlovento Foundation grant.
After describing his work in the City Council to require smaller classes and to create a program that cuts tuition in half at city colleges for students who maintain at least a B average, he said that as mayor he would abolish the Board of Education and ensure that the city got its fair share of financing from the state.
The state Legislature there approved a bill that would create a pilot program: instead of tuition, all students enrolled in state colleges would pay, say, 3 percent of their future income for about 20 years into a state-administered fund.
