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Alabama Schools Focus on Job Creation

Leaders of the Alabama Community College System say they are stepping up efforts to work with the private sector to create and fill jobs. The ACCS held a news conference today to introduce Jeff Lynn as the system’s senior executive of workforce and economic development. Lynn comes to Alabama from Louisiana, where he had worked […]

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Alabama Hires “Warren Buffet” of Workforce Development

The Alabama Community College System has a new leader in its workforce development program. Jeff Lynn joined the system Oct. 3 and is tasked with working with businesses, economic development organizations, industries and communities to ensure students have the skills needed for in-demand jobs and employers have access to a successful workforce. He most recently […]

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Former Attorney Advocates for Strong Workforce

Dickie Scruggs became one of the nation’s most successful plaintiff lawyers through his prosecution of big tobacco and asbestos industries, becoming a multimillionaire in the process. Curtis Wilkie’s 2010 book, “The Fall of the House of Zeus,” chronicled the Oxford attorney’s staggering fall as the result of a judicial bribery scandal that sent both Scruggs, […]

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$4M NSF Grant Training Students for IT Jobs

INDIANAPOLIS — A $4 million federal grant will help train economically disadvantaged and minority students for tech jobs. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis says the grant has been awarded to its School of Informatics and Computing and to Ivy Tech Community College Central Indiana by the National Science Foundation. The main objective of the program is […]

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Certificates Earned at Community College Yield Economic Benefits

Over the last decade, national leaders and policymakers have pressed states to produce more college graduates as a way to help the United States remain globally competitive and ensure its long-term economic growth. Public and private universities facing this “completion agenda” have launched a host of new programs aimed at improving student retention and degree […]

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Colleges to Launch Work-Ready Community Program

Copiah-Lincoln Community College, the city of Brookhaven and Lincoln County will launch an initiative Monday to build a more productive workforce and encourage economic growth. Kenny Goza, of the Co-Lin Workforce Placement Program, invited city officials attending the aldermen meeting this week to attend the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Work Ready Initiative launch Monday at 7:30 a.m. […]