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WCC gets DOL grant
Part of $2.15 million DOL grant is for WCC to help business students
Kawther Mohammed
Issue date: 1/29/07 Section: Inside WCC
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Washtenaw Community College has a handful of programs offered to students such as Culinary Arts, Dental, and Pharmacy Technician. At Garret's, it is possible to see the work of the CA students, and in the OE building, we see the hard efforts of the dental and pharmacy students. So, what about the business and marketing students?
According to a prerelease in the Ann Arbor News, Washtenaw Community College and eight other Community colleges across southeastern Michigan will share a $2.15 million Department of Labor (DOL) grant. Along with WCC, Henry Ford, Macomb, Monroe County, Mott, Oakland, St. Clair County, Schoolcraft and Wayne County District are among the lucky community colleges that will split the $2.15 million over the course of three years.
Each school will determine specifically what the money will be used for. The destination of WCC's share of the money has already been determined. WCC's goal with the lump-sum of money is "to build a program in advanced management." This will teach students who have a marketing career in mind to use prototypes to market and launch business ideas.
Since initially the grant was meant to be $3.5 million, WCC had to "go back to the drawing board" to figure out a way to spend the money for good uses. Herein lies the idea of hiring an industry expert who would "oversee the grant to help everyone move forward in a way that is meaningful to the students."
To help kick off the DOL grant with WCC, a list of 29 (and growing) partnership members was put together. The group includes Southeast Michigan Community College Consortium (SMC3), Detroit Regional Chambers, which according to the DOL's project abstract is, "a 22,000 member business organization…" Ford, Great Lakes Steel, and WCC's own Washtenaw Technical Middle College.
With the biggest help coming from SMC3, it will help provide a handful of activities such as "occupational assessments…for advanced manufacturing and alternative energy…establish five Centers of Enterprise (COE) for technology training," provide instructors, study work, and materials. This will help build the colleges capacity to redeliver programs in marketing and create "highly skilled technical employees."
As soon as the new DOL grant that WCC has asked for is finally worked out and set out for a final copy, it is sure to help make it a more well-rounded education environment, and open the doors of opportunity for many students for the next three years.
According to a prerelease in the Ann Arbor News, Washtenaw Community College and eight other Community colleges across southeastern Michigan will share a $2.15 million Department of Labor (DOL) grant. Along with WCC, Henry Ford, Macomb, Monroe County, Mott, Oakland, St. Clair County, Schoolcraft and Wayne County District are among the lucky community colleges that will split the $2.15 million over the course of three years.
Each school will determine specifically what the money will be used for. The destination of WCC's share of the money has already been determined. WCC's goal with the lump-sum of money is "to build a program in advanced management." This will teach students who have a marketing career in mind to use prototypes to market and launch business ideas.
Since initially the grant was meant to be $3.5 million, WCC had to "go back to the drawing board" to figure out a way to spend the money for good uses. Herein lies the idea of hiring an industry expert who would "oversee the grant to help everyone move forward in a way that is meaningful to the students."
To help kick off the DOL grant with WCC, a list of 29 (and growing) partnership members was put together. The group includes Southeast Michigan Community College Consortium (SMC3), Detroit Regional Chambers, which according to the DOL's project abstract is, "a 22,000 member business organization…" Ford, Great Lakes Steel, and WCC's own Washtenaw Technical Middle College.
With the biggest help coming from SMC3, it will help provide a handful of activities such as "occupational assessments…for advanced manufacturing and alternative energy…establish five Centers of Enterprise (COE) for technology training," provide instructors, study work, and materials. This will help build the colleges capacity to redeliver programs in marketing and create "highly skilled technical employees."
As soon as the new DOL grant that WCC has asked for is finally worked out and set out for a final copy, it is sure to help make it a more well-rounded education environment, and open the doors of opportunity for many students for the next three years.
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