Accenture teamed up with six community colleges to offer a Community Teach Program that has helped thousands of students develop the skills they need to succeed in the working world. Discovery Communications partnered with Montgomery College to provide internships, guest lectures by Discovery executives, training on resume development and interview skills and other programs to…
Blackboard Inc. is known primarily as the leading learning management system provider (LMS) in higher education today, but it has also been growing throughout the corporate sector through its Professional Education division that was started in 2005.…
The National Center for Supply Chain Technology Education (SCTE) is the newest ATE Center, established in August 2011 under a four-year $3.5 million NSF grant. SCTE is being led by Norco College of the Riverside Community College District in California, in partnership with four other community colleges located along major national supply chain routes: Jefferson…
A highly collaborative effort between 11 colleges in 11 states, the American Association of Community Colleges, the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Business Incubation Association has recently resulted in the launch of a sophisticated online Virtual Incubation Network (VIN) Toolkit. The VIN Toolkit helps community colleges…
Tomorrow’s Workforce Now is a new initiative from ACT announced in April 2012 that is geared specifically toward helping employers identify and develop their current and future employee talent. The initiative is being supported by a coalition of community colleges along with the support of the American Association of Community Colleges and California Community Colleges.…
This is the third in a series of feature articles about the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers. ATE Centers are all great examples of how 2-year colleges have taken a leadership role in partnering with colleges and universities, K-12, business and industry and government agencies “to design and carry out model…
There’s no doubt about it, training is important. It helps people succeed at their jobs, becoming more efficient and effective in the workplace. There are those people who are self-motivated and make the time for training on their own, learning for the love of learning and the benefits it brings. However, in a world of…
The National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Advanced Technological Education Centers’ (ATE) website is a great place to get a keen understanding of how this program, started in 1992, has contributed immensely to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce and economic development in the U.S.…
The IBM Academic Initiative has placed a stronger focus on bringing its open standards and open source resources to community colleges. The Academic Initiative is a global membership organization available to higher education faculty members and research professionals at accredited institutions. It provides members with access to IBM software and courseware materials for teaching, learning…
St. Louis Community College (STLCC) is a model community college system that puts forth a great deal of results-oriented energy into increasing its workforce development, corporate training and regional economic development mission and strategy. STLCC has four campuses in Missouri that annually serve more than 80,000 students through credit courses, continuing education programs and workforce…
The demand for high quality and career-advancement-oriented online courses and programs at the community college level remains strong, especially during this still-stormy economic climate, when the adult education market continues to seek out flexible online programs that allow them to stay on their jobs while simultaneously working towards the completion of a degree or certificate.…
Both private, for-profit corporate training companies and community college workforce development and corporate training departments compete for training contracts as well as create meaningful partnerships between each other to meet the requests of employers in today’s training marketplace. This simultaneously competitive and collaborative environment spreads across entry-level job skill development to mid-level incumbent worker training…
On April 21, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) released a report titled “Reclaiming the American Dream: Community Colleges and the Nation’s Future.” It was created by AACC’s 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges, comprised of 38 community college professionals. The report was released in conjunction with AACC’s 92nd annual convention held…
The Automotive Manufacturing Technical Collaborative (AMTEC), comprised of 23 community colleges and 21 industry partners, has developed a general maintenance mechatronics curriculum for the automotive industry that has the potential to also be utilized in other advanced manufacturing job sectors.…
Pockets of workforce development initiatives at community colleges are showing great promise through recent funding from the federal government. However, on the opposite side of the funding bar, state dollars at community colleges have shrunk in 43 states, resulting in difficult budgets, which historically is not an uncommon situation at our nation’s community colleges.…
