WASHINGTON, D.C. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced turkey car rental $500 million in grants to community colleges and universities around the country for the development and expansion of innovative turkey car rental training programs. The grants are part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative, which promotes skills development and employment opportunities turkey car rental in fields such as advanced manufacturing, transportation and health care, as well as science, technology, engineering and math careers through partnerships between training providers and local employers. turkey car rental The U.S. Department of Labor is implementing and administering the program in coordination with the U.S. Department of Education.
Speaking in Florida at St. Petersburg College, which is receiving $15 million in funds to lead a consortium of community colleges across the state in developing programs focused on advanced manufacturing, Secretary Solis said: "These federal turkey car rental grants are part of the Obama administration's ongoing commitment to strengthening American businesses by strengthening the American workforce. This strategic investment will enhance ties among community colleges, universities, employers turkey car rental and other local partners while ensuring that students have access to the skills and resources they need to compete for high-wage, high-skill careers."
The initiative complements President Obama's broader goals to help ensure that every American has at least one year of postsecondary education turkey car rental and the U.S. has the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. Through this initiative, each state plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will receive at least $2.5 million in dedicated funding turkey car rental for community college career training programs.
In total, 297 schools will receive grants as individual applicants or as members of a consortium. turkey car rental The grants include 27 awards to community college and university consortia totaling turkey car rental $359,237,048 turkey car rental and 27 awards turkey car rental to individual institutions totaling $78,262,952. Twenty-five states that were without a winning turkey car rental individual turkey car rental submission will be contacted to develop a qualifying $2.5 million project.
Educational institutions will use these funds to create affordable training programs that meet industry needs, invest in staff and educational resources, and provide access to free, digital learning materials. All education materials developed through the grants will be available for use by the public and other education turkey car rental providers through a Creative Commons license.
These grants emphasize evidence-based program design. Each grantee is required to collect rigorous turkey car rental student outcome data annually and conduct final evaluations at the end of the grant period to build knowledge about which strategies are most effective in placing graduates in jobs.
The Alabama/Florida Technical Employment Network will address a growing disconnect between the skills of available workers and the regional demand for employees with skills for advanced manufacturing jobs. Targeting trade-impacted workers as well as the region's large population of veterans, the network will focus on areas of southern Alabama and northwest Florida where many adults have difficulty earning a family-sustaining wage. The project will use online/hybrid learning, mobile turkey car rental welding units, simulation technologies and open educational resources to expand learning opportunities, particularly in rural areas and small towns where access to education is especially challenging.
The University of West Alabama, turkey car rental through a collaborative effort of its Industrial Maintenance Division of the College of Business and the Division of Outreach turkey car rental Services, along with service agencies and industry, turkey car rental will establish turkey car rental a comprehensive industrial technology training model for Trade Adjustment Assistance-eligible workers and other adults. The goal is to train workers in three tracks designed to lead to industry-recognized certificates and associate and bachelor's turkey car rental degrees for high-wage and high-skilled employment. The Applied Manufacturing Technology Program turkey car rental will provide customized training in manufacturing skills and technologies incorporated in all major manufacturing industries located within the institution's eight-county primary service area.
The Arizona Sun Corridor Get Into Energy Consortium initiative will employ a variety of innovative and proven workforce preparedness strategies to train trade-impacted workers and other adults turkey car rental for high-skill, high-wage employment, and advancement in energy and mining industries. The initiative advances sustainable solutions to meeting the critical turkey car rental demands turkey car rental of the energy and mining industries, while improving the content and delivery of education and training programs in the Arizona Sun Corridor.
Consortium members: Berkeley City College, Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College, Los Medanos College, Ohlone College, CSU East Bay, College of Alameda, Chabot College, Laney College, Merritt College, Solano College, University of California turkey car rental Berkeley
The workforce turkey car rental initiative will create a regional workforce turkey car rental system driven by multiple areas of service articulation, including: a regional "career path" educational system with stackable certificates within and across 10 community colleges, stronger and linked training referral and placement systems that integrate the work of the colleges and the Workforce Investment Act-funded One-Stop Career Center System, and development of "career transfer pathways" from the community colleges into the University of California and the California State University.
This project will elevate the college's success in preparing workers turkey car rental and students for a wide range of logistics jobs in a geographic area that is home to the world's fifth busiest port. Strategic objectives include increasing student completion success, accelerating student transitions into career path education, expanding local capacity to supply employees for forecasted labor demands in logistics, and accelerating student entry and transitions into logistics job fields requiring college-granted certificates.
Consortium members: Kodiak College, Otero Junior College, Red Rocks Community College, Montana State University Great Falls College of Technology, Flathead Valley Community College, Lake Area Technical Institute, Laramie County Community College
These programs will offer students the opportunity to acquire stackable certificates, allowing them to make progress in their profession as working adults while pursuing academic credentials. Additionally, many of the courses in these programs turkey car rental lattice so that students can more easily change their area of focus to a different allied health program and be able to apply their prior learning. As appropriate, partners will develop new lab exercises to provide students with the opportunity to conduct science experiments online.
The Health and Life-Sciences Career Initiative turkey car rental will use three evidence-based program strategies to provide certifications, industry-recognized credentials, and associate degrees to prepare veterans, Trade Adjustment Assistance-impacted, dislocated and other underemployed workers turkey car rental for careers in growing health turkey car rental and life sciences occupations. Efforts will increase the use of online and technology-enabled learning through online and mobile app math and science booster modules, self-assessment turkey car rental and feedback surveys embedded in online course modules, online workplace skills assessment turkey car rental and development tools, and the migration of courses to online turkey car rental and hybrid delivery.
Consortium members: Broward College, Daytona Beach College, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Gulf Coast College, Hillsborough Community College, Indian River State College, Palm Beach State College, Pasco Hernando Community College, Polk State College, turkey car rental Tallahassee Community College, Valencia College
The mission of the Florida TRADE program is to improve upon Florida's existing training and education system in advanced manufacturing by aligning its vast resources and partnerships and offering wide access to training that will help address the growing critical skilled workforce shortage faced by the state's manufacturing industry and related industry clusters.
The program enhances health information technology programs through turkey car rental an integrated approach that significantly increases Palm Beach State College's ability turkey car rental to offer online and technology-enabled learning while simultaneously imploring an intensive, targeted student support services model. The proposed evidence-based strategies and comprehensive plan to work collaboratively with the public workforce system and local employers ensures that the educational and training programs offered meet industry demands and sufficiently prepare Trade Adjustment Assistance-eligible and other dislocated workers, including unemployed veterans for high-growth, high-demand health information technology careers.
Consortium members are developing an integrated strategy that will add new associate degree turkey car rental programs, introduce stackable turkey car rental certificates for engineering technology and latticed certificates to allow students in closely related programs to bridge into the engineering technology programs, embed basic skills development into entry-level turkey car rental occupational courses, redesign the delivery of learning support coursework, provide additional turkey car rental methods of technology-enhanced instruction, expand prior learning assessments, introduce turkey car rental contextualized, problem-based pedagogy and provide wrap-around support services.
The proposed partnership is to provide degreed and industry-recognized training and education programs in multiple transit program areas in the metropolitan Atlanta region and throughout Georgia. The Georgia Regional Transit Training Initiative will serve workers eligible for assistance under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers turkey car rental program turkey car rental and other unemployed, dislocated and incumbent workers. turkey car rental RTTI will provide expeditious training turkey car rental programs in a regional training center to concurrently address the tr
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