CAMDEN - Rutgers University’s Camden campus is redoing its financial aid system so new students from families making $60,000 a year or less won’t have to pay any tuition.

There also will be significant financial aid for students whose families have incomes from $60,001 to $100,000 under the “Bridging the Gap” program announced Monday.

The program is for students who graduate from high school and enroll in 2016. It will cover tuition and fees — which total about $14,000 for the current academic year — but not room and board at the largely commuter university.

"I think it's a wonderful thing — a step in the right direction for the state," said Paulsboro School District Superintendent Laurie Bandlow.

In her Gloucester County district, "many kids don't think they can" go to college, she explained.

"They don't think they have the opportunity," Bandlow said. "This is really opening the door for more and more kids."

To read more about about Rutgers-Camden's latest financial aid initiative, please visit the following link: http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jersey/2015/10/26/rutgers-camden-cover-tuition-low-income-students/74629378/