Tech offers tutition savings in the fall

Full- and part-time Tri-County Technical College students can receive a significant savings on tuition this fall — up to 81 percent — if they are enrolled in classes in a critical workforce field like engineering technology, health care and information technology. The South Carolina Workforce and Industry Needs Scholarship (SCWINS) is a statewide technical college scholarship program designed to address workforce shortages in the state while giving students in these critical needs majors a tuition discount, opening the door for more Anderson, Oconee and Pickens county residents to attend college. The SCWINS scholarship, paired with lottery tuition assistance, covers any tuition and mandatory fees remaining after all other scholarships and grants are applied. Recipients must be enrolled in six credit hours with one at least three hours being in one of the critical needs areas. Engineering Technology majors include auto mechanics and CNC (also available at the Oconee Campus) while health care includes programs such as nursing, surgical technology and medical assisting, as well as veterinary technology. Tri-County has a new EMT program beginning this fall which also qualifies for the scholarship. SCWINS recipients cannot be LIFE scholarship recipients.