CAREER CENTER
NCWE encourages community colleges and nonprofit organizations to submit job openings to our Career Center. NCWE Members have additional access to the Career Center including: search openings for potential applicants, posting their resume/CV, manage posts and respond to applicants to open positions by logging into their account, and receiving an email alert when a job is posted in a specific category.

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Catapult IT Apprenticeship Program
Howard Community College, MD

HCC and AT&T partnered in 2019 to develop the first apprenticeship in the state of MD which prepares participants for a career in IT, allows apprentices to earn debt-free college credits, and enables them to obtain a high-level security clearance. The program was developed in response to AT&T’s urgent need for entry-level employees. HCC developed a non-traditional apprenticeship model where courses were front-loaded, so that the bulk of related instruction occurred during the time when apprentices were awaiting security clearances..…

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Industrial Diesel Program
Lone Star College North Harris, TX

The Industrial Diesel Credit Program at Lone Star College-North Harris is ranked the tenth best training program in the nation by Daimler Trucks North America. Daimler Trucks North America’s Get Ahead program partners with 231 diesel training centers across the county and scores and ranks each location annually. Multiple elements are in place which enabled the LSC-NH program to achieve this status in just six years since beginning spring 2014..….

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Enrich: Technical + Essential Skills=
Changed Lives
Richland Community College, IL

The EnRich program, an intense 10-week, 360-hour training includes technical and Essential Skills training, utilizes a point system for continued participation and provides a $10 an hour stipend for participants. This program has focused efforts on Minority and Underserved populations, including unemployed, underemployed, and difficult to serve populations including recently incarcerated and/or convicted individuals….

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New Jersey Pathway and Skills Collaboratives
Joananne Coffaro, Director Workforce Training Center
Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

The mission of New Jersey Pathway and Skills Collaboratives is to create a statewide network of education and workforce partners who are industry-driven, collaboration-based and diversity and inclusion-focused… the Community College Team connects college leaders of academic and workforce programs that will increase strategies and map new pathways to help fill the needs and challenges of the targeted industries...

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Higher Education Leadership in an Ever-Changing Crisis:
Generations under Stress
Rick Bouillon, Associate Vice President Workforce
and Economic Development
Salt Lake Community College, UT

Crisis can be a catalyst for change. Being flexible and using this time to pivot, strategize new ways to reach people needing to re-skill, re-enter and re-engage a new workforce. Leading beyond an ever-changing crisis and re-investing in the multiple generations of our communities around us is what’s necessary to emerge stronger than before. We’re all in this together.…

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The Workforce We Need is Right
Under Our Nose
Carola Otero Bracco, Executive Director
Neighbors Link, Westchester, NY

Data shows that the more than 800,000 registered DACA (Deferred Action of Childhood Arrival) recipients know no other country as their home but the U.S. . Research shows that DACA has been beneficial to the U.S. economy and repealing it would cause economic harm. Thus, they are valuable assets to America’s workforce, economy, and communities, helping the US remain competitive in an increasingly challenging global marketplace…..

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Advanced Technology Programs
Lone Star College Cy-Fair, TX

In an effort to encourage support and collaboration among students and to support local employers, Lone Star Cy-Fair advanced technology programs put into place laboratories and opportunities for students to work together across disciplines….

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Invest in You, Too
Salt Lake Community College, UT

Invest in You, Too is a partnership between Salt Lake Community College’s Division of Workforce and Economic Development, Utah’s Department of Workforce Services and employers from the Medical Device manufacturing industry. Individuals selected by DWS to participate in this program were single mothers seeking to overcome intergenerational poverty learn both technical knowledge and skills in four core Medical Device content areas…..

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Education and Employment Outcomes
Research: Calculating Impact
Paula Nissen, Workforce Preparation
Education Consultant
Iowa Department of Education

Iowa’s Community College Program Outcomes studies employment outcomes gained through community college training for both credit and non-credit programming. The reports produced document the educational and employment outcomes of community college students enrolled in credit and non-credit programs, as well as students who left Iowa community colleges without completing a program....

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LIFT the TriState
Gateway Community and Technical College, Florence, KY

The LIFT the TriState program is a partnership between GCTC, the Freestore Foodbank, and Belflex Staffing that offers an opportunity for unemployed and underemployed adults to become trained in the growing field of logistics. This ten-week job program based in offers hands-on training from experienced warehouse personnel and specialized logistics coursework.….

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Agriculture Program
Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette, IN

The Agriculture Program at Ivy Tech Community College-Lafayette began in the fall of 2007. The Pathway to Purdue Agriculture program originated in the fall semester of 2010 and has three main goals: to increase access to a Purdue College of Agriculture Bachelor’s degree, increase readiness for successful completion of an Associate’s and Bachelor’s degree, and to engage students in the university culture of Purdue as freshmen..….

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Scaling the Lessons Learned from
TAACCCT to Benefit the Entire College
Jo Alice Blondin, President, Clark State Community College
Michelle Van Noy, Associate Director, EERC, Rutgers University

Prior to receiving the TAACCCT grant, CSCC trained fewer than twenty students annually in general manufacturing. Since 2014, the college has trained more than 450 students in eight stackable certificates (Welding, Additive Manufacturing, CNC, Industrial Maintenance, SCADA, CAD, Robotics, and Manufacturing) and an associates degree. As a result of this success, CSCC developed the next “stackable” step in the degree program: a Bachelor of Applied Science in Manufacturing Technology Management....

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Skilling Up Inmates for
High Demand Jobs
Ivy Tech Community College - Madison, IN

To answer the need for a skilled workforce, IN's governor launched the Next Level Jobs Initiative to skill up Indiana’s prison inmates for high-wage, high-demand jobs. Ivy Tech - Madison, in strong collaboration with local adult education providers and local employers, developed a welding program for female inmates from the Madison Correctional Unit. This project has been replicated by 6 additional Ivy Tech campuses, upskilling over 600 Hoosier inmates….

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Highline College and Port Jobs
Airport University
Highline College, WA

Highline College and Port Jobs worked collaboratively to implement Airport University (AU), a unique employer-driven, credit workforce development program located onsite at Sea-Tac International Airport. The AU partnership brings free credit-bearing college classes to airport employees at their workplace, helping them build the education and skills needed to advance in high demand, family sustaining jobs in aviation, transportation, hospitality and security.….

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Supporting Small Business is Our Business
Teresita Wisell, Vice President Workforce Development and Community Education

Small businesses are the backbone of the US economy and provide the bulk of the net new private-sector jobs according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). This explains why after the 2008 recession, national and local governments and industry leaders encouraged a revitalization of the entrepreneurship spirit throughout the US. A new energy emerged, evidenced by the creation of projects like Start-Up America, Start-Up New York and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, among others. Without thriving entrepreneurs and small business owners, our local economies would stagnate.....