The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education this week approved the resident rate of tuition for students displaced by crises in their home countries. The new Kentucky Innovative Scholarship program is supported by a $10 million appropriation this year by the General Assembly. CPE President Aaron Thompson said this program could place refugees at Kentucky universities as early as this spring.
“Looking at how we can become a state that is more accepting of others and how we can have our students in this state learn from people different than they are and have those students learn our rich way of life,” said Thompson.
