South GA Technical College giving students free textbooks

When Georgia’s need-based HOPE grant for technical college students stopped helping them pay for textbooks last year, administrators at South Georgia Technical College decided to take matters into their own hands.

The college announced three weeks ago that starting this fall, it will provide students with free textbooks for each of their courses — a program that President Sparky Reeves said he hopes will be paid for by tuition revenue brought in by additional students.
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