State college offering free tuition to Tulsa County high school graduates

Tulsa World, March 14, 2007
"Free Tuition: TCC scholarship aims to duplicate success of GI Bill"
Tulsa Community College on Wednesday plans to unveil the Tulsa Achieves scholarship, which will pay up to 100 percent of tuition and mandatory fees for Tulsa County high school graduates, beginning with the class of 2007.
"This is a big program, but we feel we need something transformational, and we believe this could be very important for our area, for Tulsa County," TCC President Tom McKeon said.
Lauren Brookey, TCC vice president for external affairs, compared Tulsa Achieves to the GI Bill, which changed people's lives and changed society.
McKeon said parents always want to provide better lives for their children, but college is less affordable than it used to be.
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