Technical Education

As the state lags behind the nation in job and income growth, particularly for recent college graduates, announcements from financial-tech and technology-services companies have committed to creating hundreds of jobs.

The university intends to use the federal funds to grow its research capacity, improve its labs, create industry partnerships and create 475 jobs for engineers and technicians over the next decade.

In buying a downtown building for relocation as it separates from Fairmont State University, Pierpont Community and Technical College expects more collaboration with the city of Clarksburg in the future.

A city community center worked with engineers from Sandia National Laboratories, a research facility, to introduce elementary and middle school-age kids to scientific concepts via toys and crafts projects.

While community colleges across the U.S. saw enrollment decline last year, the South Bend-Elkhart campus of Indiana’s public community college system held steady, in part due to dual enrollment and continuing education.

Recently proposed legislation would allow the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to give federal grants to academic medical centers such as the University of Rochester and the State University of New York.

Proponents of HB 1261 say that a buy-one-get-one-free offer for college credits in fields such as IT, engineering and computer sciences would incentivize the creation of a much-needed workforce.

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center has announced $3.4 million in grants that will serve over 93 schools, funding local programs and “maker spaces” with 3D printers, laser-cutting equipment and other supplies.

Central New Mexico Community College is exporting its Deep Dive Coding and Technology boot camps, offering them as a template for other colleges to launch their own tech workforce development courses.

The 100,000-square-foot facility will host automotive technology, welding, metal fabrication and other career and technical education programs for Belleville Township High School District 201, starting in fall 2022.

Funds from the university's public-private partnership will go toward seven initiatives, including faculty research projects, space research, a health data resource and understanding student equity.

Concordia and Dominican universities in River Forest, Ill. will teach a four-course program for post-baccalaureate students on both the technical and social issues that surround cybersecurity.

With a $5.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, the city of Refuge will offer free training in cybersecurity and web development to 280 high school graduates from high-poverty areas over the next four years.

The University of Southern Mississippi and the nonprofit Mississippi Coding Academies have partnered to set up tuition-free training programs in coding and cybersecurity in downtown Biloxi, Miss.

Through a $65,000 grant, and in partnership with the training studio Notiontheory and the software company Unity, the school is starting a spatial computing program in which kids can create applications and environments.

Both to prepare science students and attract top teachers, Hampton City Schools is renovating old science classrooms and adding at least 15 more in a 37,000-square-foot expansion due for completion in 2023.

Our Sisters' School in Massachusetts has invested in a robotics club, a greenhouse, coding programs, extra science instructors and other resources to help girls break into careers in which women are underrepresented.

The university joined others in New York, Utah and North Carolina as part of the National Science Foundation's research of new wireless devices, protocols and applications to improve broadband connectivity.