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EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING

Company’s Tuition Reimbursement
Program is Changing Lives

On a Path Toward Leadership

Martin Marietta’s Tuition Reimbursement Program is Helping People Grow Their Careers
Barbara Pollard knows the mining business inside and out. provide assistance to people pursuing an associate,
A team member at Hatton Quarry, Martin Marietta’s bachelor’s or master’s degree in a subject that aligns with
DIAMOND ELITE AWARD winner in 2021, she has their career path or current job responsibilities. Annually,
consistently risen through the ranks during her 25-year the program is allowed to provide up to $5,250 in
career. Joining the Company as a weighmaster, she reimbursement benefits that can be used for expenses like
eventually moved on to serve as an office manager. When books, academic fees and other related charges.
the urge to learn more about production became too
much to ignore, she stepped into a role as foreman. It was Pollard, who graduated in December 2021 and is now
soon after that she sat down with her local Human assistant plant manager at Hatton, says she utilized the
Resources representative to discuss her long-term goals. program for three years as she worked toward earning her
Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from
“It was actually our HR person who asked if I had any Southern Arkansas University.
interest in going back to school,” Pollard says. “I had
gotten my associate degree right after high school, but I “I knew I could do it, I just couldn’t do it quickly, so for me,
never finished my bachelor’s program.” As that discussion the program worked really well,” she says. “I took two
continued, Pollard learned the details of the Martin classes per semester and was reimbursed for nearly all of it.”
Marietta Tuition Reimbursement Program.
Katie Beardslee has also utilized the Tuition Reimbursement
Available to all full-time employees who have been with Program while working along a less traditional company
the Company for more than one year, the program aims to path.

Barbara Pollard surveys the Hatton Quarry

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