Dolly Parton to cover college tuition fees for all Dollywood employees
nme.comDolly Parton’s theme park Dollywood has announced they will cover 100 per cent of tuition for employees who wish to pursue higher education.The initiative, which also covers costs like textbooks, will start February 24 and all full-time, part-time and seasonal Dollywood employees will be able to enroll in the education benefits package.
From that date on, all new hires will be eligible from their first day of employment.“One of The Dollywood Foundation’s key tenets is to ‘learn more,’” Dollywood Company President Eugene Naughton said in a statement. “This program is created with that very tenet in mind.
We want our hosts to develop themselves through advanced learning to fulfill the foundation’s other tenets: care more, dream more, and be more.”“When our hosts strive to grow themselves, it makes our business and our community a truly better place.
We care about our hosts’ development and we want their future to grow because of love — not loans,” Naughton continued.The reasons for joining our team keep growing!https://t.co/z1r3oftlme https://t.co/zWHVAtSIQQ— Dollywood Parks & Resorts (@Dollywood) February 9, 2022This isn’t Dolly Parton’s first foray into charitable acts though.
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