Post by Logan on Jun 22, 2016 7:45:25 GMT -6
Oregon Tech quietly offers free tuition to Umpqua shooting survivors
In the months following the state's deadliest mass shooting in modern times, Oregon Institute of Technology President Chris Maples quietly set up a new scholarship program.
Starting this fall, OIT will waive tuition for any Umpqua Community College student who was in one of four classes in Snyder Hall on Oct. 1 when a gunman killed 10 people, including himself, and wounded 8 others.
The "UCC Hero Scholarship" is available to 85 students, Maples said in an interview Thursday. OIT picked that criteria with the help of UCC since those students were "considered most physically and emotionally impacted" because of their proximity to the shooting.
Three UCC students are already enrolled at OIT this fall and a fourth has applied to the four-year school.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/06/oregon_tech_quietly_offers_fre.html#incart_river_index
In the months following the state's deadliest mass shooting in modern times, Oregon Institute of Technology President Chris Maples quietly set up a new scholarship program.
Starting this fall, OIT will waive tuition for any Umpqua Community College student who was in one of four classes in Snyder Hall on Oct. 1 when a gunman killed 10 people, including himself, and wounded 8 others.
The "UCC Hero Scholarship" is available to 85 students, Maples said in an interview Thursday. OIT picked that criteria with the help of UCC since those students were "considered most physically and emotionally impacted" because of their proximity to the shooting.
Three UCC students are already enrolled at OIT this fall and a fourth has applied to the four-year school.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/06/oregon_tech_quietly_offers_fre.html#incart_river_index