He left his home during his junior year of high school and has flitted in and out of homelessness since. But he is taking out loans to pay for housing.īeeler, 21, is originally from Lewiston. His tuition is covered by state and federal grants. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographerĭominic Beeler was one of the 525 SMCC students to secure on-campus housing on the South Portland or Brunswick campuses for the upcoming semester. Outside his family’s home in Gardiner, Dominic Beeler, 21, is one of the 525 students at Southern Maine Community College to secure on-campus housing on the South Portland or Brunswick campuses for the upcoming semester. Ultimately, Santa Cruz and two fellow first-years found a three-bedroom apartment to rent for $2,850 per month in Saco, about 30 minutes from SMCC’s campus. She was flooded with responses from people looking for somewhere and someone to live with. The program kicks in after other state and federal grants have been applied.įollowing the suggestion of the college’s residential life staff, Santa Cruz posted on the school’s digital bulletin board that she was looking for a roommate.
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She was drawn to SMCC in South Portland because of Maine’s free college scholarship, which covers tuition and fees for full-time community college students who graduated from high school or passed an equivalency exam between 20. Santa Cruz is originally from Massachusetts but wanted to leave home to experience something new and get out of her home state.
Related Applications swell with Maine’s offer of free community collegeĪ graduate student at Northeastern’s Roux Institute sent more than a hundred Facebook messages, texts and emails in search of a room to rent for under $1,000 per month before desperately taking a more creative approach – biking around the city asking people on the street if they knew of any vacancies, and leaving post-it notes with her name, number and a request for housing on doors and in mailboxes.
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