Bucks County Community College offers tuition relief to help unemployed workers adjust to lost jobs--the second time the college has offered such a program. Workers who have lost full-time jobs in the last year can complete up to 30 hours of course credits without tuition charges in regular classes offered between January 2009 and August 2010.
"It's designed to offer up windows of opportunities for people who otherwise wouldn't have the resources to do it," President James Linksz said.
The free tuition program is similar to the effort in 2002 and 2003 to help county residents who were displaced by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. During that initiative, approximately 300 county residents took at least one free course, Linksz said.
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