Mott Community College: MCC To Participate In Study Of Workforce Training As A Path To Good Jobs 

Press release from Mott Community College:

Dawn Hibbard

Dec 1st, 2021

Mott Community College has been named one of six community colleges to participate in New America’s second New Models for Career Preparation cohort. MCC was chosen because of its status as a workforce development innovator through the MCC Workforce and Economic Development Division (WED).

With support from the Lumina Foundation, the Center on Education and Labor at New America (CELNA) has launched the New Models for Career Preparation Project, a multi-year research and storytelling effort, to better understand the design, financing, and strategy principles that go into creating high-quality non-degree programs at community colleges that lead to quality jobs and careers.

The first cohort studied program-level attributes that make non-degree workforce programs effective and exemplary. The MCC cohort will focus on institutional-level attributes that make non-degree workforce development successful.

“We are excited to have been chosen as one of six community college workforce innovators nationwide, recognized for innovation in non-credit programming,” said Robert Matthews, Associate Vice President for MCC WED, “and we look forward to contributing to the understanding of how to create a high quality non-degree training program that leads to good paying jobs and careers.”

According to New America, as the labor market slowly recovers from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence is growing that it is undergoing a profound and unequitable shift. The overall unemployment rate is dropping, but it is increasing for Black workers. Employers complain of labor shortages but long-term unemployment remains high. Community colleges will be particularly important by providing high-quality, responsive workforce training helping people adjust to this new labor market, and empowering them to access high-quality jobs.

The new cohort of New Models for Career Preparation grantees includes:

? County College of Morris

? Des Moines Area Community College

? Lone Star College

? Mott Community College

? Sacramento City College

? Tidewater Community College

For more information about the New America New Models for Career Preparation Project visit https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/what-makes-a-community-college-excel-at-workforce-development/

For more information about MCC’s Workforce and Economic Development Division, visit https://www.mcc.edu/wfed/index.shtml or call 810-232-2555.

This press release was produced by Mott Community College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.