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Service vector: Nebraska State Senator Tony Vargas spearheaded two laws to lighten the financial burden on AmeriCorps veterans like himself.
CORNHUSKERS LOVE
AMERICORPS
Why Nebraska offers in-state tuition
to anyone who serves.
By Jamaal Abdul-Alim
W
hen Yen Huynh first signed up to serve in AmeriCorps
in Nebraska, her goal was to become a resident so she
could pay in-state tuition for graduate school.
" My original plan was to move to Nebraska, gain state residency,
go to school, and work for a little bit but [then] eventually
move back home to Albuquerque, " says Huyhn, a 2016 graduate
of the University of New Mexico, where she got a bachelor's
degree in political science and criminology.
The plan worked. Huyhn became a resident, and she is
now getting her master's degree in political science from the
University of Nebraska Omaha, where she is paying the instate
rate. But were Huynh still in New Mexico and planning
to join AmeriCorps today, she would qualify for resident tuition
a different way. That's because as of April 2021, Nebraska
is granting in-state tuition to anyone who has served for at
least a year in AmeriCorps, even if that service took place in
another state. It's a change that could save program alumni
tens of thousands of dollars.
" When I found out that the bill for in-state tuition was
passed for those who had finished serving in AmeriCorps, I
thought it to be a great benefit, " Huynh says. She supports the
change, even though she is already a resident.
The person behind the new law in Nebraska is Democratic
State Senator Tony Vargas, himself an AmeriCorps alum. Vargas
met his wife a decade ago while both were working as educators
for Teach for America, the education nonprofit that recruits
" promising leaders " to teach for at least two years in a
low-income community. (Teach for America operates under
the umbrella of AmeriCorps.) Vargas taught in Brooklyn, and
his wife taught in the Bronx. The couple eventually moved to
Nebraska so Vargas's wife could attend law school. But education
remained a passion. Vargas served on the Omaha school
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