Dive Brief:
- Kentucky State University has succeeded in getting most of the students who had failed to pay their bills to the school to either work out payment plans or pay their outstanding balances in full.
- Two weeks into the school year, the university had dropped 645 students — a quarter of its enrollment — for failing to pay, Inside Higher Ed reported.
- About 452 of the dropped students were allowed to return after paying up or working out payment schedules.
Dive Insight:
The public university, a historically black college, currently has an enrollment of 1,881 students. The students who had failed to pay accounted for a $7 million deficit, according to the school. Both the presidents of Kentucky State’s Student Government Association and Faculty Senate backed the school’s plan to drop the students who owed.
