SU to welcome students with familiar in-person campus life theslateonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theslateonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pa. aims to collect nearly $18 million in unpaid student fees, without using collection agencies
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
Attorney General Josh Shapiro is recalling $17.9 million in unpaid student fees owed to the 14 state universities that had been turned over to for-profit collection firms for collection and instead, will have his office s financial enforcement employees pursue clearing those debts. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP
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Nearly 4,800 people have accumulated $17.9 million in unpaid student fees owed to one of the 14 state-owned universities and Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.
For decades, efforts to get them to pay up the fees that universities charge alongside tuition, such as an activity fee or technology fee, resulted in for-profit collection agents coming after them. But no more.
Shippensburg University officials struggled to create a safe environment for the spring 2020 graduation ceremony because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, eventually holding it last August in the commuter parking lot next to the Ship Rec.
University of Illinois wins FDA approval for saliva COVID-19 test
The University of Illinois System received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday for its saliva-based COVID-19 test, as the statewide seven-day rolling positivity rate reached 2.4 percent.
The FDA approval allows for the covidSHIELD test to expand beyond the U of I System. The saliva-based COVID-19 test has been administered more than 1.5 million times at universities in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield since it launched in 2020, according to a news release.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he will be dedicating $20 million in federal CARES Act funding to provide one million of the saliva-based tests to Illinoisâ 12 public universities and 48 community colleges.
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