The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-04-19
FREE SCHOLARSHIPS AND FREE
TUITION UNDER JURISDIC-
TION OF BOARD OF CHARI.
TIES AND CORRECTION.

general assembly passed a law which
requires the State Board of Charities
and Corrections to examine into the
financial ability of applicants, and
that of parents and guardians :, of
applicants, for beneficiary scholar
ships and free tuition in the State
institutions for higher education.
The law was passed as a compromise
to the demand of denominational
colleges that steps be taken to put
them on degree of parity with State
colleges in the matter of free tuition
and scholarships.
The law provides that the State
Board of charities and corrections
shall report the result of it's investi-
cations to the boards of trustees of
State Colleges who are to grant or
refuse free tuition or beneficiary
scholarships as they see fit. Provis-
ion is made in the act for appeal
from the decision of any board of
trustees to the State board of educa-
ton which can reverse or confirm
the action of the trustees in so far
as the same relates to law or fact.
In recent opinions, Mr.. c. N. Sapp,
the new assistant attorney general,
has passed, at the request of the
State Board of charities and correc-
tions, on some of the provisions of
the act. Mr.. Sapp has held that the
law applies only to those beneficiary
scholarships the granting of which is
conditioned upon the inability of the
application, his parents or guardian
to pay tuition or tuition and other
fees at the State college offering the
scholarship. Mr.. Sapp. has held
further that applicants for benefci-
ary scholarships must first pass the
competitive examinations success
fully before it will be necessary for
the State board of charities and cor
rections to investigate their financial
ability and that of their parents and
guardians.
At conference early in April rep
resentatives of the State colleges and
the secretary of the State board of
Charities and corrections reached
an agreement which will facilitate
the Investigations of the board.
The colleges will see that each
applicant for free tuition knows of
the provisions of the new law requir-
ling investigation by the State board
of charities and corrections. Here
after, when the parent or guardian
of a prospective student at State
college or the student himself asks
for free tuition, the college will send
him blank on which will be printed
"When this blank is properly filled
out, free tuition will be granted
pending further investigation by the
State board of charities and correc-
tions, as is required by law" After
this blank is filled out and returned
to the college to which application
for free. tuition has been made, it
will be filed with the State board of
charities and corrections. In this
way, all applicants for free tuition
and parents and guardins of appli-
cants will be advised of the, investi-
CATION.
The State colleges will file with the
State board of charities and correc-
tions the names and addresses of ap-
plicants for beneficiary scholarships,
anu the HdlIleS dIu duuI SSoSo VI pal
ents and guardians of such appli-
cants, who succeed in passing the
competitive examinations. In addi-
ton to the names of applicants, the
colleges will send the board the in
formation which such applicants and
their parents and guardians are now
required to give in regard to their
financial ability. !.
Tie new law under which the
State board of charities and correc-
tions is required to proceed, does not
apply to beneficiary scholarships or
free tuition grants now in force,
but it does apply to beneficiary
scholarships which are to be award.
ed or renewed at the beginning of
the session of 1867 when one of
the conditions under which the schol-
arships are given is the inability: of
the holder, his parents or guardian,
to pay tuition or tuition and other
fees. 1t applies, too, to grants of
free tuition which are to be renewed
or awarded at the beginning of the
1867 session.
NOTICE.