Michael Frazier was a soldier in the U.S. Army for four years in the early 1990s, serving in the Gulf War. When he came home to Texas, he was eligible to take up to 150 college credit hours for free at public state schools thanks to Texas’ Hazlewood Act. But instead of using them himself, he passed them to his children. Frazier’s daughter Mercedes received 120 of those free hours, using them to attend West Texas A&M University. read more