Dolly Parton Is Offering Free Tuition to Dollywood Employees Who Want to Pursue Higher Education

Dolly Parton is doing something incredible.

Dollywood announced that if any of its employees want to continue to pursue their education, they’ll chip in to cover tuition and books, via Vanity Fair.

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Herschend Enterprises, the operating partner behind properties like Dollywood, Dollywood’s Splash Country and Dolly Parton’s Stampede, announced that that beginning in February, they will start covering 100% of tuition, fees, and books for any of their employees who are pursuing higher education.

It’s part of their pilot program GROW U, launching on February 24 for all seasonal, part-time and full-time employees.

“We know when our hosts are happy and feel cared for that they are going to pass that along to our guests. The creation of the program allows another avenue for us to care for our hosts,” said Eugene Naughton, president of The Dollywood Company, to local news outlet WATE.

“One of The Dollywood Foundation’s key tenets is to ‘learn more.’ 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.”

Earlier in the month, it was revealed that Dolly Parton is taking on a new gig!