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Northwestern Michigan College Ranked Among Best Community Colleges for Vets

TRAVERSE CITY — Since the script has flipped from soldier to student, so has the service. Military Times magazine ranked Northwestern Michigan College the second-best two-year college for veterans in its Best for Vets list for 2019. NMC moved up one spot from the 2017 list. The community college has implemented a series of initiatives […]

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Local Workforce Investment Board Commits $289,199 to Connecticut College’s Success Program

Northwest Connecticut Community College has received $289,199 from the Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board to fund the college’s Team Success Scholar program for the 2018-2019 school year. About $2 million has been infused into the college over a 15-year period through the program, which helps students obtain workforce credentials while offering career and college exploration. […]

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Doylestown, PA Community College Plans $14 million Training Center

A new $14 million building planned for Bucks County Community College’s Gene & Marlene Epstein campus in Bristol Township will enhance and expand the college’s jobs training programs and help fill the “skills gap” for local and regional manufacturers and businesses, according to college and county officials. Speaking during a brief ceremony on the campus […]

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Hartford Businesses, Colleges Form Synergetic Relationships

Kiley Russell’s story was all too familiar. In her mid-20s, with some college experience and lots of student-loan debt, Russell spent time waitressing and bartending while she searched for a rewarding career she could sink her teeth into. She went back to school last year, but rather than study anthropology or sociology like she had […]

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4 Colleges Launching Apprenticeships in Robotics

With a grant from a non-profit robotics manufacturing institute and some additional support from the state, several state community colleges will be launching a two-year apprenticeship program this spring in advanced robotics. The program, which will include a mix of class time and paid apprenticeship training at a manufacturer, will enable about 30 students to […]

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Tuition-Free Coding School to Launch In W.Va.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Officials say West Virginia has a new, tuition-free coding school. The Herald-Dispatch reports Huntington Mayor Steve Williams was among officials who announced the launch of NewForce on Oct. 11 at Mountwest Community and Technical College. Potential students do not need experience in coding, software development or math. The school will offer six […]