Paier College, which relocated from Hamden to Bridgeport’s South End in 2021, shuttered for good as of last May.

BRIDGEPORT — A long-planned municipally and privately funded scholarship program designed to reduce the cost of college for hundreds of high school seniors could launch as soon as next school year.

BRIDGEPORT — Taira Nunez was supposed to be graduating now from Paier art college with an illustration degree. "So I could become an art professor myself," the 26-year-old Derby resident explained.