March 2021 Issue Work Ready Saves ECTC Students $1.3 million Tuition-free education and training for a For Bryan, the complexities of X-ray are rewarding, high-demand career. It sounds what initially engaged his interest in ECTC’s too good to be true. But...
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March 2021 Issue Work Ready Saves ECTC Students $1.3 million Tuition-free education and training for a For Bryan, the complexities of X-ray are rewarding, high-demand career. It sounds what initially engaged his interest in ECTC’s too good to be true. But since the Work radiography program, noting that most Ready Kentucky Scholarship (WRKS) was people don’t realize the intricacy of the established in the Fall of 2017, it’s become field. a reality for nearly 1,100 Elizabethtown “Taking an X-ray, you’re not just someone Community and Technical College students. taking pictures,” Bryan said. “There’s During the 2020-2021 school year, 467 a lot to do with the patient’s anatomy, ECTC students have been awarded about their thought process and with hospital $1.3 million in WRKS funding. That brings procedures. However well you perform the total WRKS awards to ECTC students determines patient outcome a lot of times.” since 2017 to more than $3.7 million. WRKS-eligible career fields include The
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