Lehigh Carbon Community College has received a two-year, $50,000 grant from the John E. Morgan Foundation that will provide scholarships to students from Schuylkill County who enter career pathway courses that lead to credentials that prepare them for gainful employment.

Unique to these scholarships is that they also support students in noncredit and short-term programs, in addition to traditional credit degree programs.Scholarships will be applied based on greatest need and in disciplines or training programs that fall within career pathways, such as credit programs in business management, entrepreneurship and small business, and noncredit programs in Microsoft Office, phlebotomy, industrial automation, certified nursing assistant and class A commercial driver's license. For students in programs that aren't eligible for financial aid, scholarships will pay up to half the cost of tuition.Scholarships will be applied by the college's financial aid office. Many of the courses covered through this scholarship begin as early as December 2015.Interested people are invited to attend an open house at the LCCC Morgan Center, 234 High St., Tamaqua, from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday.For more information, call the LCCC Morgan Center at 570-668-6880.