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MCCC SECURES
$1.7 MILLION GRANT TO ESTABLISH WELDING CENTER OF EXPERTISE MCCC recently secured a $1.7 million in federal grant to establish a Welding Center of Expertise. The college was among 68 of the approximately 274 submitting organizations to be awarded Community-Based Job Training Grant funds from the U.S. Department of Labor. MCCC was the only community college in Michigan to win the award. Grant funds are being used to hire additional highly qualified faculty, upgrade the existing welding lab to a state of the art, cross-categorical welding skills laboratory, and develop and offer an accelerated beginning and advanced welding certification program to serve employment needs in the advanced manufacturing, construction and energy industries. The curriculum will be delivered in a 10-week, 250-hour format and will prepare students to earn their American Welding Society QC-10 and QC-11 certifications and qualify them for entry into advanced-level employment, self-employment and local welding labor unions. In addition, an eight-hour, non-credit Foundational Skills Boot Camp - based on the Workkeys® job skills assessment system - will be available to participants to enrich their skills in applied mathematics, reading for information and location of information, after which they will earn a National Career Readiness Certification. Prior to the grant opportunity, Andy Burke, Associate Professor of welding technology, and Parmeshwar Coomar, Dean of the Industrial Technology Division, visited Odessa Community College in Texas, which offers a similar certification program. After that visit, they were convinced that MCCC could be successful in getting funded, given the accelerated-format niche. Burke and Coomar worked with Beth Kohler, coordinator of alumni and resource development, to write the grant. Dean of Corporate and Community Services John Joy added additional expertise on the basic skills boot camp concept. The proposal was submitted in November. The office of U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Dearborn, was notified in January by the U.S. Department of Labor that MCCC was one of the winners. Grant partners include Southeast Michigan Community College Consortium, Southeast Michigan Wired, Monroe Public Schools, Southeast Michigan Community Alliance Workforce Board, Utility Workers Union of America, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 85-Ohio and Local 169-Detroit, United Association Local 671 (Plumbers and Pipefitters), DTE Energy, Midway Products Group, Marathon Petroleum and Baker's Gas and Welding Supplies. |
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