Texas A&M University is offering to pay tuition, fees, and some living expenses for students from Ukraine. John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, announced this week that starting next semester Ukrainian students attending any of the university’s 11 campuses will be eligible to receive free tuition and fees, as well as some living expenses.
“Our students from Ukraine are in a unique, sad and difficult position as their homeland is under attack, their family members are either fleeing to safety or fighting to save their country’s sovereignty,” Sharp said in a memo to presidents of the multiple campuses. “In many cases, our students from Ukraine will no longer have homes to return to, and their parents remain unable to work ... or worse.”
The announcement comes on the heels of the university announcing that they would be cutting research ties with Russian entities and are considering ending study abroad and faculty exchange programs in Russia. Sharp also says the university is open to taking-in displaced Ukrainian professors and students so they can continue their work in the US.
Source: Houston Chronicle