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QCC Awarded Over $198K to Support Students Impacted by COVID-19
Contact: Karen Hutner
Office of Institutional Communications
khutner [at] qcc.mass.edu
Release Date:
10/15/2020
WORCESTER, MA—October 15, 2020 — Quinsigamond Community College has been awarded a $198,263 Grant from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund. As part of the Education Stabilization Fund through the CARES Act, the grant was awarded to support emergency need-based assistance for eligible students impacted by COVID-19.
“These funds come at a crucial time for many of our students, who have been struggling with financial issues since the start of the pandemic,” said QCC President Dr. Luis Pedraja.
The GEER fund was designed in response to COVID-19, to support an array of educational expenses critical to students’ enrollment status.
In additional to Federal CARES funds and the GEER state funding, the College’s Foundation instituted a Student Emergency Fund that to date has raised over $114,000.
“The Student Emergency Fund is unique in that all current QCC students qualify for the Fund, whether they are degree-seeking, non-degree seeking, certificate-seeking, full-time, part-time, international, or undocumented,” President Pedraja continued. “In these continually challenging times we want to make sure our students are supported and have the financial support they need in order to be successful.”
For more information about QCC, contact Josh Martin, Director of Institutional Communications at 508.854.7513 or jmartin [at] qcc.mass.edu
Quinsigamond Community College is the most affordable higher education in Worcester County. As a regional leader in education and workforce development, QCC serves the diverse educational needs of Central Massachusetts by providing affordable, accessible, and high quality programming leading to transfer, career, and lifelong learning.