Students sit in a classroom at Cleveland State Community College.Cleveland State Community College has received two grants to help retain and graduate students in different areas.
With a $102,000 grant, the college will buy equipment for emergency medical technician, nursing, anatomy and physiology programs.
The college also will hire new part-time positions, including a computer applications academic coach and a high schools linkages coordinator.
Cleveland State also received the Tennessee College Access and Success Network grant "Bridging the Math Divide." This $40,000 grant project will redesign the fourth-year high school math bridge course for students who have not yet demonstrated college readiness and have an ACT score of 19 or below at the end of their junior year.
The program will be implemented in high schools in McMinn, Meigs, Monroe and Polk counties.