Harris v. Virginia Commonwealth University

By Judge Melvin R. Hughes, Jr.

This is an appeal noted by an undergraduate student attending Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) from a ruling denying in-state domiciliary tuition status.

To be eligible for in-state tuition, the student must show by clear and convincing evidence that, “for a period of at least one year immediately prior to the date of the alleged entitlement,” the student was “domiciled in Virginia and had abandoned any previous domicile, if such existed.” Va. Code § 23-7.4(13).

The salient point presented by the student here, Janasia N. Harris, is that she should be…