WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Workforce Development and Education

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Delgado�s Workforce Development and Education Unit seeks to promote personal, professional and economic development through initiatives designed to maintain a skilled workforce and enhance the quality of life on local, regional, national and international levels.

The Workforce Development and Education Unit is designed to provide customer-driven assessment and training programs as an inducement to secure new value-added businesses to our region, to respond to permanent closures and layoffs, as well as to provide existing businesses with the necessary training for expansion. This Unit will also serve as a forecasting mechanism for industry growth by providing leadership to the business community in identifying and training for emerging workforce trends and technologies. Through these comprehensive initiatives, the Workforce Development and Education approach will allow employers to retrain, upgrade and attract a skilled workforce pool to our region.

Workforce development also offers continuing education and noncredit programs. Through these programs, the unit developed the following three distinct clusters to meet the needs of our community: corporate training, life long learning, and global view learning. Corporate training programs are offered for individuals and businesses. The Lifelong Learning cluster includes both personal enrichment and art courses and is designed for personal development in order to enhance the quality of one�s life. The Global View Learning cluster offers courses in the Languages and English for speakers of other languages.

Noncredit students are awarded Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for each course successfully completed. The Continuing Education Unit is s nationally accepted unit of measurement. The earned CEUs become a part of the student�s permanent records and are often used by employers as a means of evaluating professional development.

In Summary, the Workforce Development and Education Division offers:

� Customized Business Training
� Incumbent Worker Training Programs
� Atypical Courses
� Job Skill Analysis
� Career Path Training
� Course Development
� Commercial Training
� Professional Development
� Industry Based Certifications
� Distance Education Courses
� Continuing Education Courses/Non-credit
� Outreach programs for the academically and economically disadvantaged
� College courses at convenient neighborhood locations