{"id":173569,"date":"2023-01-24T20:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=173569"},"modified":"2023-01-24T20:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:11:35","slug":"valley-town-offers-full-community-college-tuition-to-eligible-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=173569","title":{"rendered":"Valley Town Offers Full Community College Tuition to Eligible Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Queen-Creek-Promise-Program-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-173570\" src=\"http:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Queen-Creek-Promise-Program-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queencreekaz.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Town of Queen Creek<\/a>\u00a0has announced\u00a0an exciting program for local students\u2014the Queen\u00a0Creek Promise\u00a0Program\u2014a commitment from the Town to its residents for eligible high school students to attend Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) for two years with Arizona resident tuition\u00a0fully funded.<\/p>\n<p>At the kick-off event on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, Queen Creek Mayor\u00a0Julia Wheatley commented on the importance of community college.\u00a0&#8220;After high school, CGCC is where I first started taking classes, and tuition was all on my own, so it took me longer to graduate and go through a university,&#8221; Wheatley said. &#8220;As Mayor I&#8217;m so pleased to see this program offered to our students and residents, and on behalf of the Town Council we welcome the next generation of community college leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The educational offerings from\u00a0CGCC\u00a0include both certificates and degrees, helping Queen Creek reinvest in its community with higher education, as well as many\u00a0flexible,\u00a0workforce-ready programs and degrees\u00a0designed to meet the area\u2019s current and future workforce needs. Eligible Queen Creek students can use this tuition assistance to help launch a career\u2014or transfer on to a university.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of CGCC&#8217;s certificates and two-year degrees available are for hands-on and high demand programs, such as Aviation Maintenance, Nursing and even Drones,&#8221; said Dr. Greg Peterson, CGCC President, &#8220;but regardless of your focus, CGCC is a great place to start and even finish!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eligibility for the program is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Last Dollar Program&#8221; fills the gap in funding after financial aid and scholarships<\/li>\n<li>Open only to Queen Creek resident, high school graduates<\/li>\n<li>Must start at CGCC within 2 years of high school graduation<\/li>\n<li>Recipients must demonstrate financial need and complete the FAFSA<\/li>\n<li>Students must have a 2.0 high school GPA and maintain a 2.5 at CGCC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CGCC\u00a0and the town of Queen Creek are working to make education more accessible.\u00a0Partnerships like these give students the opportunity to explore their interests, get going on a pathway, and pursue coursework from business to engineering to teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for the Fall 2023 semester will open March 1, 2023, and be open until April 30. Scholarships will be awarded beginning June 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Find more information <a href=\"http:\/\/embedded.advisor@cgc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Town of Queen Creek\u00a0has announced\u00a0an exciting program for local students\u2014the Queen\u00a0Creek Promise\u00a0Program\u2014a commitment from the Town to its residents for eligible high school students to attend Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) for two years with Arizona resident tuition\u00a0fully funded. At the kick-off event on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, Queen Creek Mayor\u00a0Julia Wheatley commented on the importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-173569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-learn","tag-hot-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}