Media Coverage

National Media Coverage

• “Stuart Allison: Could tuition to liberal arts colleges be free?” Galesburg Register-Mail (August 6, 2021)
• “College Presidents Implement New Models to Bridge Affordability Challenges,” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (July 28, 2021)
• “Hope College takes big step toward tuition-free campus,” Associated Press (July 14, 2021)
• “This College’s Tuition-Free Model Will Let Students Pay What They Can Post-Graduation,” Chronicle for Higher Education (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College launches program to make tuition free, requests donations after graduation,” Detroit Free Press (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College Begins ‘Pay It Forward’ Program With Goal Of Offering Free Tuition To All Students,” Forbes (July 15, 2021)
• “Hope College wants to trade tuition for donations” (revised headline: “Hope College To Go Tuition Free”), Insider HigherEd (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College takes big step toward tuition-free campus,” KBJR (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College wants students to pay tuition after graduation,” University Business (July 15, 2021)
• “Hope College Takes Big Step Toward Tuition-Free Campus,” US News & World Report (July 14, 2021)
• WJR 760 – Mitch Albom, live interview, no public recording available (July 14, 2021)

State Media Coverage

• “Hope College Takes Big Step Toward Tuition-Free Campus,” CBS Detroit (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College works to create tuition-free business model,” FOX 17 (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope Forward: Hope College launching pilot for fully funded tuition model,” Holland Sentinel (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College announces free ‘pay-it-forward’ tuition model funded by alumni donations,” MLIVE (July 14, 2021)
• “No more tuition? Hope College wants to change the way higher education is funded,” MLIVE (July 15, 2021)
• “Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment at 9:20 p.m. EDT” (first paragraph only), The Star (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College Establishes ‘Hope Forward’ Tuition-Funding Program,” 1450 AM 99.7 FM, WHTC Holland (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College wants to make tuition free for all students through “pay-it-forward” plan,” WKZO (July 14, 2021)
• “‘Pay-it-forward’: Hope College aims to offer free tuition to all students,” WOOD-TV (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College wants to make tuition free for all students through ‘pay-it-forward’ plan,” WTVB AM (July 14, 2021)
• “West Michigan’s Hope College launches program to make tuition free, asking for post-grad donations,” WWJ 950 (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College takes big step toward tuition-free campus,” WWMT (July 14, 2021)
• “Hope College implements free tuition program in the fall,” WWMT (July 14, 2021)
• “‘Pay it forward’ program would provide free tuition for Hope College students,” WZZM 13 (July 14, 2021)
• “'Tuition-free' model launched at Hope College,” WZZM 13 (July 14, 2021)