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To be young, wise and debt-free

December 04, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Vanguard
By Anna Williams
November 29, 2017

Jacey Wilson is one of 2,015 Portland State freshman who attended their first days of undergraduate classes at the start of Fall 2017. She plans to earn a bachelor's degree by 2021-and she plans to do it for free.

Wilson joins more than a third of this year's in-state freshman, roughly 492, enrolled in the first generation of PSU's Four Years Free initiative, which along with federal Pell grants, covers full-time tuition and fees for up to 12 consecutive semesters.

Read the full article at the Vanguard website here.