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9-7-05 Piedmont waives expenses for evacuee students (9-7-05) College students who have had to flee hurricane Katrina in the Gulf states may soon be picking up their studies at Piedmont College in northeast Georgia. Piedmont President Ray Cleere said the college currently has room for 30-40 additional students and will waive tuition, room and board during the fall semester for students displaced by the storm. The American Council on Education says as many as 100,000 college students in the New Orleans region have been affected by the storm. Some three dozen colleges and universities were seriously damaged just as the fall semester was beginning. Cleere said Piedmont's semester began Aug. 11, but that "faculty and the director of academic support felt like they could bring students up to speed to finish the semester here." Dean of Students Jem Clement, chairman of the committee screening prospective students, said the invitation is open to students who had registered or enrolled at any one of the affected colleges along the Gulf Coast. And while the college only has room for 30-40 students to live on campus, the offer of free tuition is also available to evacuee students if they already have housing near the main campus in Demorest or the Piedmont Athens Center. For information about Piedmont's offer to waive tuition, students or parents can contact Clement at (706) 778-3000, extension 1188; or (706) 499-3618; or by e-mail at jclement@piedmont.edu. Information about courses offered at Piedmont can be found on the web at www.piedmont.edu. -30- |
