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Iyanla Vanzant, an inspirational speaker, gives a speech in the Tivoli Tumhalle in honor of Black History Month on Monday. Vanzant's presentation was called "Words of Wisdom, Inspirations and Hope."
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Drop policy limits student options Refund policy starts taking money before students try class Jessie Bullock The METROPOLITAN
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Metro is the only school at Auraria that penalizes students for trying out a class before they decide to stick with it or drop it. According to Metro's tuition refund policy, a student could only receive a 100
percent refund if he or she dropped a class by Jan. 20, the day before school even started. According to Tim Greene, Associate Vice President · of Human Resources and Finance, Metro's tuition refund policy is on a sliding percentage scale. "The current policy is what our college wanted for students who dropped and
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added classes," he said. When tuition was raised in 1992, the board of trustees reaffirmed the current tuition refund policy, Greene said. "The system was set up this way so there would not be a lot of students signing up for a lot of hours and shopping around," Greene said. According to Greene, the refund policy is in place to discourage students from registering for more credit hours than they need. This helps maintain a smaller class size and keeps the waiting lists for classes shorter. The University of Colorado at
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Denver has a different rn.ethod for deterring students from enrolling in more classes than they intend to complete. UCD uses payment deadlines and disenrollment to encourage students not to sign up for more classes than they intend to keep, UCD accountant Carolyn Landa said. Both UCO and the Community College of Denver used to have a tuition refund policy that only gave the students back a percentage of their tuition. Under current policy, students at both schools have until Feb. 5, approximately See TUITION page 6