Tri-County Receives CHE Funding for
Higher Education Awareness Program

CONTACT: BEVERLY MCADAMS, EXT. 2373

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/5/99
(By Lisa Garrett

PENDLETON --- Tri-County Technical College has received $560 from the Commission on Higher Education to implement a program to provide students and their parents with information about higher education. This is the sixth year the Higher Education Awareness Program (HEAP) has been funded at Tri-County.

HEAP will give area eighth graders and their parents information about opportunities for higher education in the state, such as two-year and four-year public and private institutions and technical colleges, said Beverly McAdams, acting coordinator of counseling at Tri-County and overseer of the HEAP grant activities.

Other HEAP activities will include campus tours, support for parents presentations and activities for students. These tours help to achieve the three primary goals of HEAP, which are to decrease the number of high school dropouts, to increase the number of students going to college and to encourage long-range planning.

Each middle school across the state has been assigned to a college or university partner. Tri-County works with seven middle schools in the area: Pickens Middle School, Oakway Middle School, Tamassee-Salem Middle School, Walhalla Middle School, Dacusville Middle School, Westminster Middle School and Palmetto Middle School.
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