B&S College offers tuition aid to jobless - Business First of Buffalo:

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The Retraining Opportunity Grant, which begins this will help defraytuition costs, said Jeff Tredo, directore of Western New York colleges of Bryant & To qualify, new students must show such as official unemploymenft documents, that they have been laid off from a job withijn the past 12 months, Tredo said. Qualified part-time meanwhile, can receive up to $500 per The amount awarded each semester is determined byeach person’d demonstrated financial need, Tredo said.
The grant is the college’s way of helping out-of-work individuals get back to schoolp to learnnew skills, Tredo Because state and federal financial aid is often determinedx by previous years’ income, new studentsd who have recently lost a job may not get as much financiap help as they actually he said. “We really designed this specifically to address aneed that’sd out there,” Tredo said. “This provides some assistance fromthe college’sx point of view.” The private which has local campuses in Amherst, Orchard Park and downtown Buffalo, has set asided a total of $500,000 in retrainingf grants for qualified students.