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UNO TOPS Students Get Tuition Paid, Others Will Owe 58%

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith
Published November 17, 2016 at 10:32 AM CST
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SPRING SEMESTER TOPS COST MORE -- Some 50,000 Louisiana Students with TOPS Tuition will have to pay out-of-pocket for their spring semester as the state will cut 42% from the program.  This will be the first time in the TOPS tuition program's history where students will have to pay for tuition.  Governor John Bel Edwards says these cutbacks could have been avoided.  He's going to ask the legislature to address this issue when they reconvene this spring.
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Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. Chuck studied mass communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.
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