Colorado ASSET will serve as a key piece of Colorado’s economic recovery plan:
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For the thousands of students currently in line to become citizens, making them pay stardard-rate tuition helps guarantee an educated workforce once they attain citizenship.
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This bill will create revenue for Colorado’s colleges and universities.
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No State funds would go toward the tuition of these students, no College Opportunity Fund (COF) dollars are allocated with this bill, and the students will not be eligible for federal or state financial aid. We are simply making them pay in-state tuition.
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We have invested in these kids’ K-12 education, we must realize that investment. Colorado has the second highest percentage of college graduates in the nation, but ranks 32nd in sending our own high school graduates to college. Failing to educate our students has implications not just for education, but for our economy.
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College graduates are less likely to be caught in a cycle of poverty. Students with a college degree are more productive and civically engaged – they are more likely to help strengthen the economy, vote, and contribute more to the state tax base and are less likely to end up in the correction system.
