(RNS) — Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, announced a 33 percent tuition cut Thursday (Oct. 8), joining two other Council for Christian Colleges and Universities members that have reset their tuition in the last two weeks in an effort to make private Christian education more accessible.
The cut will go into effect in fall 2021, reducing Gordon’s tuition to $25,250 and its annual “sticker price” — including tuition, room, board and comprehensive fee — from $50,650 to $37,950. According to the results of a 2019 CCCU survey, the nondenominational Christian college is now one of only 11 CCCU schools to ever reset its tuition.
“We’re hoping that we’re at the leading edge of a larger movement whereby Christian higher education makes a larger commitment to becoming more affordable for more families,” Gordon President Michael Lindsay told Religion News Service. “We’re also hoping that this major push will increase access opportunities for students who are the first of their families to go to college, as well as students from underrepresented groups.”
The announcement follows an anonymous $75.5 million donation to the college last year, the largest donation ever made to an evangelical college. Those funds — coupled with another $50 million raised — are going directly to support scholarships, freeing up other resources.
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