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Hagan announces $18.8M to support workforce training & development in 9 NC community colleges
Story Date: 9/27/2011
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Source: PRESS RELEASE, 9/26/11
U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (NC) today announced that a consortium of nine North Carolina community colleges will receive $18,835,604 for targeted job training and workforce development to help displaced workers who are changing careers. The program, which supports partnerships between community colleges and employers that provide pathways to good jobs, is based on similar principles as Hagan’s AMERICA Works Act. For more information on the AMERICA Works Act, click here.
“With North Carolina’s unemployment rate over 10 percent, we need to focus on initiatives that prepare our workforce for real job opportunities,” said Hagan. “I introduced the AMERICA Works Act to ensure that job training translates into real-world job readiness. And I am pleased that today’s announcement provides North Carolina community colleges – the best in the country – with funding that will expand their ability to place more people in high-quality jobs in fields ranging from welding to healthcare to biotechnology. I am 100 percent committed to working with the administration and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on initiatives that put North Carolinians back to work.”
The grant, part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) initiative, helps develop instructional programs that meet specific industry needs, strengthens technology-enabled learning, and allows students and workers to access free learning materials online. Each community college receiving funding has at least one employer partner that has jobs available and needs workers trained to fill them.
North Carolina community colleges receiving funding include Robeson Community College, Beaufort County Community College, Craven Community College, Nash Community College, Edgecombe Community College, Davidson County Community College, Surry Community College, Haywood Community College, and Asheville‐Buncombe Technical Community College.
Today’s announcement is funded through the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, which Hagan voted to reauthorize last Thursday in the U.S. Senate. In 2010, North Carolina received the third largest amount of assistance through TAA – a program that ensures that displaced workers who lose their jobs due to foreign trade receive the support and training necessary to transition into new jobs.
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