
On December 5th, a guest blog, “Tuition Equity: Keeping Promises and Doing the Right Thing,” made the case that all state residents should be treated equally with respect to tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in New Jersey. (Practices vary but, with few exceptions, so-called undocumented students, although they are residents of the state, have been paying “out of state” tuition rates if their parents entered the country illegally and they came with them). The blog challenged the governor to do as he promised to do in the run-up to the election in November as, in the post-election euphoria, he appeared to be backing away from the commitment he had made.