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Colleges Take a Role in Supporting Manufacturing

California’s manufacturing sector has long been viewed as a ticket to the middle class. While there are fewer manufacturing jobs than existed a generation ago, they still are vitally important of California’s economy. Earlier this month, thousands of students visited manufacturing plants in California to learn about the industry and the job opportunities it offers. […]

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Internship Forms Political Leaders

The United Faculty is seeking students to fill paid internships and volunteers for a variety of different political activities and opportunities sponsored by the United Faculty. Contra Costa Community College District Governing Board Trustee Gary Walker-Roberts has experienced the program firsthand. “I would not know how to do my job as a district trustee if […]

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Are Certificates Losing Value?

Certificates are the fasted-growing post-secondary credential, according to statistics between 1995 and 2014 from the Department of Education, with almost a million being granted each year. But new insight from the research group Burning Glass Technologies has found that these credentials may not actually be what’s needed to fill workforce gaps. After reviewing 16 million […]

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College Opens Robotics-Manufacturing Lab

BELDEN – Rows of machinery and power tools lined the hangar-like and newly revamped Precision Manufacturing and Robotics Laboratory at Itawamba Community College’s Belden campus, where the school celebrated the facility’s ribbon cutting Wednesday. A portion of the Belden Center was recently cleared out and renovated to consolidate ICC’s precision manufacturing, machining and robotics labs […]

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ApprenticeOhio Teams Up with Colleges

A unique partnership between ApprenticeOhio and 10 community colleges across the state is making it easier for Ohio students to pursue careers in well-paying industries that need workers. The Ohio College Apprenticeship Consortium will reimburse tuition to participating students for completing pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs in occupations identified by local businesses as needing workers. […]

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Kasich Says 2-Year Schools Meet Workforce Needs Best

Gov. John Kasich thinks community colleges are more responsive to workforce demands than four-year universities. In an interview with Fortune magazine on Monday, Kasich said that four-year schools are far too slow to change. “I think that two year schools are the most responsive. They’re much more responsive than a four-year school,” Kasich said. “Trying […]

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Filling the Skills Gap

From the Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va. Automation and robotics can be frightening words for some American workers, and understandably so. Smarter, computerized equipment has changed the workplace — and manufacturing in particular — worldwide. But those machines perform functions that people once did, and many of the “factory jobs” we remember from decades past have gone […]

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College Gets $10M Grant for Pittsburgh Job Center

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a $10 million grant Monday to help pay for the construction of a workforce development center at the Community College of Allegheny County’s North Side campus. CCAC officials said the community college will immediately start working to raise $10 million in matching funds necessary to secure the state grant. Combined, […]

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College Helps Equip Inmates for Jobs in Demand

BLACKMAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Inside what was once a prison license plate factory, 42-year-old inmate Richard Willett spends his days in a converted robotics lab, learning how to operate computerized machinery in hopes of working a good-paying job when he’s freed. It’s better than his past two prison stints, when he mostly just waited for […]

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Company Closes After Taxpayers Spent Thousands Training Workers

North Carolina taxpayers have spent about $163,000 to train employees of the Alevo battery factory in Concord that shut down abruptly last week amid a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Multi-million dollar tax incentives typically get more attention when the state awards them to companies as carrots to lure new jobs. But these firms often receive […]

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Audit Tardiness Causes Problems in W.Va.

Recent sanctions on the state’s public colleges could make it harder for community colleges to launch programs quick enough to respond to the needs of the workforce, said Sarah Tucker, chancellor of the Community and Technical College System. The sanctions, which came after West Virginia submitted a statewide audit of its finances to the federal […]

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Factory Jobs Are High-Tech, Workers Need to Be

NORWOOD, Ohio— Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as “a GREAT employee.” But it’s all nostalgia. […]

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