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    "deck": "UAS stopped charging out-of-state students the out-of-state price, and 80 of them showed up from 28 states.",
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    "body_md": "The University of Alaska Southeast, which has campuses in Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka, ran a pilot this year called Alaska Unlocked, charging every undergraduate course at the in-state tuition rate no matter where a student actually lives.\n\nNewly enrolled out-of-state students rose 36 percent, climbing from about 60 last year to more than 80 this year, arriving from 28 different states. Out-of-state applications rose 21 percent, with Washington, California and Colorado sending the most students.\n\nOut-of-state tuition normally runs double to quadruple the resident rate, so the pilot represents a significant discount for students coming from outside Alaska.\n\nPreliminary numbers show total enrollment held roughly flat at about 3,600 students across the three campuses, meaning the growth in out-of-state students filled empty seats rather than displacing Alaska students.\n\nChancellor Aparna Palmer said a high percentage of UAS graduates are still living and working in Alaska a year after they finish their degrees. The University of Alaska Board of Regents votes in November on whether to expand Alaska Unlocked across the entire University of Alaska system.",
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