How do community colleges leverage U.S. Department of Labor funds to build the workforce skills of adults? Listen to the new podcast series, Voices of TAACCCT Presidents, to hear community college leaders across the country describe the impact and influence their TAACCCT grants have had on their schools and the approaches they’ve taken to scale and sustain programs that respond to the needs of the local economy. Read full announcement.
IE2EI IMPACTcommunity is invited to present the newly developed “Industry Expert to Expert Instructor” (IE2EI) on-boarding course at League for Innovation in Phoenix, AZ in June. The IE2EI course was reviewed by a third party evaluation team, and full scale revisions are in the works. It will be piloted at colleges this summer and in the fall of 2017. The final version will be released spring of 2018.
By Nicolette van der Lee, Program Coordinator, Office of Continuing Education & Training, University of Hawai’i Maui College, nhv@hawaii.edu
In February 2017, three of my fellow TAACCCT grantees and I presented in a WorkforceGPS webinar titled TAACCCT Tales: Using StoryTelling to Share Project Successes. We come from four community colleges spread across the nation, from the East Coast states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the Midwestern state of Wisconsin, and the far-flung volcanic islands of Hawai’i. During the webinar, we talked about how we found community in tackling the challenge of turning traditional project reporting into compelling stories about transformative change. Read the full announcement.