A $1 million private donation to Georgia Perimeter College will fund projects targeting the institution’s most underserved students and help meet goals for the Complete College Georgia initiative.
The donation from the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation will immediately fund a remedial math instruction initiative and help expand services at a tutoring center on GPC’s Clarkston campus.
GPC will receive $250,000 a year for four years to fund programs likely to directly impact 8,000 students, and benefit the college’s entire 21,000 student population.
The grant will also be used to provide scholarships for disadvantaged students, to increase partnerships with K-12 schools to improve college readiness and access for underserved students, and to reform remediation and instruction activities at the college.
The $1 million gift will be presented Wednesday afternoon on the college’s Clarkston campus.
Georgia Perimeter College operates five locations in the metro Atlanta area and is the largest associates-degree granting institution in the University System of Georgia.
