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Cheyney University Pays Off Unpaid Students’ Bills with Federal Stimulus Money

Emma Lee
/
WHYY
Browne Hall on the quad at Cheyney University.

Cheyney University has become the latest school to announce it’s using federal stimulus funds to erase students’ bills that have gone unpaid since the start of the pandemic. WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports that other schools, including the Community College of Philadelphia and LaSalle University, are doing the same.

(Original air-date: 8/13/21)

Katie Meyer is WHYY’s political reporter. She covers politics, policy, power, and elections at every level of government, with the goal of showing how it all affects people’s lives.