[1]photo: Georgia senate
January 7, 2018
Ashley, [2]
After having some time to review the letter you sent me this evening [3], I have some follow up questions.
I would appreciate it if you could get me a detailed response to the letter I have attached by the end of the week.
Best Regards,
Josh McKoon
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Ashley,
Thanks again for sending along the reply letter dated October 23, 2018 today to my inquiry of September 5, 2018. I have forwarded the information you sent to the Georgia citizen, D.A. King, who was unable to get an answer from your office to the questions I sent to the Chancellor.
While it was not part of my inquiry, I am surprised and troubled to learn that GSU has had more problems with verification and has awarded illegal aliens instate tuition as the Chancellor’s letter describes. I am hopeful that the newest plan to properly separate students who lack legal status from U.S. citizens and non-citizens who obeyed our immigration laws in the registration and tuition determination process is finally successful.
The Chancellor reports that in May, 2018 it became known that GSU had applied an incorrect designation to “a few students” and these students were able to pay instate tuition. Please tell me exactly how many students were involved in this misclassification, how long they were allowed to pay instate tuition and if there is an effort to reclaim the underpaid amount of tuition.
Were any other USG schools found to have misclassified the immigration status of students or applicants in addition to GSU?
Also, while I am grateful to the Chancellor for his detailed response, I am still not clear on answers to my previous questions. Please see these inquiries again below and provide me answers to all questions in this letter before Friday?
*Is there any merit-based tuition reduction waiver that would or has applied to illegal aliens in the USG system as the NBC News piece that I cited reports?
*Does the USG system use the federal SAVE program to verify the immigration status of student applicants?
*If the SAVE system is used at USG admissions or elsewhere, please provide my office with the exact code and response to a USG query for applicants who are recipients of the federal DACA amnesty program.
Sincerely,
Senator Josh McKoon
District 29