Hope College, a Christian college in Holland, is launching an effort this week to make college tuition free for all students. Hope College President Matt Scogin spoke with Michigan News Network about the effort.
“Our vision is to have a model that’s essentially a pay it forward model, and the way it would work is that students would come to Hope with their tuition fully funded upfront, and then students who come to Hope make a commitment to be generous every year after they graduate,” Scogin said.
Scogin says they’re starting in the fall with a pilot group of 22 students and hope to raise enough in an endowment to pay for all students. He says tuition is about $36,000 a year at Hope, while room and board is $11,000. Students will have to pay that under the plan.
