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These KCTCS courses and programs offer helpful information in agriculture, renewable energy, workforce education and more. Educators will find extensive descriptions as well as course requirements for associate degrees and certificates. |
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Don't Miss, Announcements
Find a comprehensive list of events and announcements on theseedcenter.org.
USGBC Green Apple Day of Service
9/29/2012
Campus Sustainability Day 2012 - Higher Education Join the celebration, plan an event! 10/24/2012
4th Annual Second Nature Climate Leadership Awards Call for Nominations Due 11/14/2012 | |
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Issue 20, September 13, 2012
New Semester Offers Great Opportunities
Dear Colleagues,
As the semester opens, colleges nationwide are busy welcoming new classes of students to their campuses. SEED has been busy preparing activities to help build your college's clean economy and sustainability programs, such as monthly webinars, workshops at AASHE and AACC's Workforce Development Institute, and toolkits.
As part of an expanding national effort to support sustainability practices, programs, and training at the nation's almost 1,200 community colleges, five exemplary community colleges will be presented Green Genome Awards at a national summit hosted next month at Gateway Technical College in Racine, Wisconsin, where I am president.
Accompanying these awards will be the release of a comprehensive Green Genome Report and college self-assessment tool that will be useful to all colleges, regardless of where your institution currently is with sustainability and clean economy programs. We are excited to share this report with you next month.
SEED will continue to expand its popular webinar series featuring college, industry, and governmental experts with regular webinars throughout the fall and winter. Don't miss the upcoming Employer Partnerships webinar on September 27.
Sincerely,
Bryan Albrecht
Chair, AACC Sustainability Task Force
President, Gateway Technical College
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SEED Employer Engagement Webinar 9/27/2012
Last fall, SEED hosted its most popular webinar to date, Community College and Employer Partnerships: Real Jobs in the Clean Economy.
Join SEED's next webinar in this amazing series to hear in further detail how the same community college and building automation industry partner use continuous employer engagement techniques, have identified smaller suppliers, and work together in course delivery and internship opportunities. Discover the first webinar here, and join us for this dynamic presentation. Speakers: Brian Lowell, Georgia Piedmont Community College Dave Weigel, Kele Corporation Moderated by Todd Cohen, SEED Community College & Industry Partnerships 9/27/2012, 3:00 PM ET Register now. |
Join SEED's Pre-Conference Workshop at AASHE 
Don't miss this in-depth half-day training session at the upcoming Association for the Advancement for Higher Education's (AASHE) annual conference.
Across the country, successful community college and employer partnerships are preparing workers for green careers across a variety of sectors. Participants will learn how these models work, how they're placing students in real jobs, and how they are equipping students with the technical skills and sustainability knowledge to build a green economy.
Speakers include representatives from
- Los Angeles Trade Technical College
- Georgia Piedmont Technical College
- Trane
- Office Depot
- National Capitol Solutions
- Transportation industry
Building Community College & Industry Partnerships
in a Sustainable World
10/14/2012, Los Angeles, CA
Presented by SEED and AASHE.
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Salt Lake Community College, UT Adding to green workforce development The college's Green Academy continues their workforce development with the completion of Utah's only Solar Photovoltaic (PV) training yard--an exciting addition to sustainable energy practice and workforce development. Read more. |
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| Featured Resource
Pink to Green Toolkit: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs  Discover resources supporting the recruitment, training, and retention of women in green economy jobs. This toolkit can be used to conduct outreach and assessment, training, case management, and job development to ensure that each stage of the employment process looks at how the workplace environment can be responsive to women of many backgrounds and ways to address barriers women face.
GreenWays: A Jobs For the Future Initiative |
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SEED Colleges in the News
Discover details on these newsmakers and send us your clean energy and sustainability news. We'll share it with the SEED community.
Kankakee Community College (IL)
Plans to expand its green jobs training program while also helping to develop markets to employ its graduates.
Opens new Renewable Energy Center.
Revamps curriculum through the Code Green Super Curriculum Improvement Project.
Read More on this project.
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