Imagine this: Completing four years of college without seeing your tuition increase even once.
A bill that has begun advancing in the New Jersey Legislature would make that a reality.
The state Assembly Higher Education Committee today voted 6-0 with 2 abstentions to approve the bill (A2807), which would prohibit most four-year colleges and universities — public and private — from raising the tuition of undergraduate students who are from New Jersey for nine continuous semesters after they enroll.
Assemblyman Joseph Cryan (D-Union), the bill's sponsor, said the bill would reduce the number of students leaving college without earning a degree, or taking longer than four and a half years to earn it.
Read more at NJ.com: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/bill_to_freeze_tuition_for_nj_college_students_advances.html