{"id":10082,"date":"2012-09-21T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:26:33","slug":"uh-consortium-awarded-12-7-million-for-job-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/21\/uh-consortium-awarded-12-7-million-for-job-training\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> consortium awarded $12.7 million for job training"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Food innovation and safety, sustainability and electric vehicles are some of the programs of focus for a new workforce development and job training effort led by 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College, Kauaʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr> and Hawaiʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Maui College<\/a>, Kauaʻi<\/span> Community College<\/a> and Hawaiʻi<\/span> Community College<\/a> have been awarded $12.7 million from the U.S. Department of Labor<\/a> for workforce development and training in rural Hawaiʻi<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Chancellors Clyde Sakamoto<\/b>, Helen Cox<\/b> and Noreen Yamane<\/b> created the “Rural Hawaiʻi<\/span>” consortium to pool their efforts for the nationally competitive grant.<\/p>\n

“This grant reflects the common needs and opportunities in our neighbor island communities to connect our students and residents with competencies and possibilities that will be part of our economic future,” said Sakamoto, who serves as the principal investigator for the project. “It further leverages active partnerships among our colleges and rural communities that address the potential of rural counties in Hawaiʻi<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

Enhanced curriculum benefits local workforce and employers<\/h2>\n

Programs and courses will be updated, redesigned or introduced in business and accounting, geographic information systems, food innovation and safety, sustainability, electric vehicle automotive, and water\/wastewater treatment. The courses will be delivered in hybrid formats including classroom and online modes with innovative assessment technologies to measure student learning and competencies.<\/p>\n

The proposal also strengthens student services by adding staff to assess prior learning experiences, expanding career counseling, and supporting internships and placements. It will also build capacity for tracking the education, training and services impact on students bound for further education or employment.<\/p>\n

The program specifically targets workers who may have lost their jobs to overseas competition, as well as unemployed workers, workers seeking jobs requiring higher-level skills, and veterans transitioning to the workforce.<\/p>\n

Funding is part of federal workforce development initiative<\/h2>\n

The 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community Colleges received a similar grant for $24.6 million in September 2011<\/a> as part of the first round of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training<\/a> initiative, a $2 billion, four-year investment designed to increase opportunities for the unemployed. The U.S. Department of Labor<\/a> is implementing and administering the program in coordination with the U.S. Department of Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative promotes skills development and employment opportunities 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.<\/p>\n

It complements President Barack Obama’s broader goals to help ensure that every American has at least one year of postsecondary education and the United States has the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.<\/p>\n

Read the news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College, Kauaʻi<\/span> and Hawaiʻi<\/span> Community Colleges will partner together on workforce development and training for Hawaiʻi<\/span>’s rural communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[61,64,71,60],"class_list":["post-10082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136039,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions\/136039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}