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User Testimonial
"I am so pleased I was able to attend the SEED Building Sustainable Community College and Industry Partnerships Summit in October! The structure of this event allowed me to bring back tangible success stories, real contacts and next steps for making progress at my own college." Read more on the Summit.
Allessandra A. Cairo
Sustainability Coordinator
Prairie State College (IL)
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Featured Curricular Materials
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The curriculum is designed so that educators have the flexibility to incorporate these modules into their existing course material or parceled by topic. |
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Don't Miss, Conferences:
AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit - SW
12/5-6/2012, Houston, TX
Beyond Sustainability Conference
37th Annual Conference hosted by the Institute of Florida Studies and HCC Sustainability Council
2/28-3/1/2013, Tampa, FL
BuildingEnergy 2013 Conference
Hosted by the Northeast Sustainable Energy
3/5/2013, Boston, MA
2013 Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference
How colleges and universities developing programs and curricula that address environmental and sustainability challenges.
4/15/2013, Bethesda, MD
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Member News:
Western Technical College (WI) to Create Urban Agriculture Center
Santa Fe Community College (NM) lands $1.1M green workforce grant from the US Department of Labor
Mid-South Community College (AR) has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million grant from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative.
Bristol Community College (MA) has been awarded a $600,000 renewable energy grant through the Department of Energy Resources' Leading by Example program.
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Issue 22, November 14, 2012
The SEED Center's second anniversary, continuing to support colleges
Dear Colleagues,
Last month, the SEED Center marked our second anniversary. Over the last two years we have worked with colleges and partners to help advance sustainability and green workforce development practices at community colleges by sharing innovative models and FREE resources to increase the capacity of college leaders, faculty, and staff to build the green economy.
SEED now includes over 460 member-colleges. With your help, we have continued to provide tools to build your sustainability and clean technology as you work to develop your region's green economy. A recent example is The Community College Green Genome Framework: Integrating Sustainability and Clean Technology Workforce Development Into an Institution's DNA, which details a new framework to help colleges align sustainability efforts to economic and workforce development and offers an innovative online assessment tool designed specifically for colleges.
As we look ahead, be sure to attend the SEED Preconference Session at the 2013 AACC Workforce Development Institute on January 30. This workshop, now in its 3rd year, is the premiere green workforce and education program in the country, taught by the country's best experts. Ask about stipends!
The SEED Center looks forward to continuing to support colleges in these efforts. Please, contact us to share your stories, ideas, needs, and feedback.
Sincerely,
Bryan Albrecht
Chair, AACC Sustainability Task Force
President, Gateway Technical College
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AACC Workforce Development Institute (WDI) SEED Preconference Workshop
The NEW new Green Economy: Charting a Course for Community Colleges (3rd Annual)
1/30/2013
9:00AM-3:00PM
San Diego, CA
Register Today
(Stipends Available)
Despite the challenging economic environment, a number of community colleges have created powerful and successful clean technology- and sustainability-related workforce development programs. Learn from three award-winning college experts who will offer strategies for course and pathway development, engaging industry, assessing the local labor market, and working within the college and surrounding community to implement behavior change for a more sustainable and healthy region.
- Ginger Clark, Director of Technical Programs, Hillsborough Community College
- Marcy Drummond, V.P. of Institutional Effectiveness and Innovation, Los Angeles Trade Technical College
- Roger Ebbage, Director of Northwest Energy Education Institute (and instructor, Lane Community College)
"This workshop was extremely beneficial. I made great contacts, gained lots of valuable information, and am still working with the presenters to this day." Mabel Edmonds, Dean, Clover Park Technical College, attendee at 2012 workshop.
Target Audience: Community college leaders, including those responsible for workforce development and curricular resources and innovation, who are interested in building the green economy for the benefit of their students and their communities will benefit from joining this workshop.
If your college is an AACC SEED member, email enekrasova@aacc.nche.edu for a chance to secure a stipend. Lunch is included in this full-day program. |
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$ustaining Clean Technology Workforce Education (11/7/2012)
Now that ARRA funds are all but gone how will your clean tech courses and programs survive? Listen to one community college and its partners describe their efforts to institutionalize once grant-funded green training courses into credit-bearing programs within a structured career pathway framework. View it here.
Practices on Getting Students into Green Courses (10/25/2012)
The SEED Center, in partnership The NWF Greenforce Initiative, held a webinar on practices to get more students in your courses. View it here.
Sharing Resources and Efforts to Increase Civic Engagement to Promote Policy Change and Grow Green Jobs (10/23/2012)
In this webinar Dr. Debra Rowe, President, U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development provided an update on SEED's Action Community which works toward growing green jobs through policy and civic engagement. View this webinar to hear the latest, get resources, and hear about solutions to our shared and diverse challenges. View it here.
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2012 Green Genome Winners
Last month, over 100 senior college leaders and industry partners convened at Gateway Technical College (WI) for the Sustainable Industry-College Partnership Summit. There, SEED presented its inaugural Green Genome Awards, honoring exemplary community colleges nationwide that have taken a strategic leadership role in sustainability and green economic and workforce development. Over the next few months we will be highlighting these colleges through our success stories and snapshots, beginning with Butte College, below. You can view interviews with these winners here.
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| Butte College: Ensuring Commitment to Sustainability Practices
 As the winner of the 2012 Green Genome Award in the category of Governance, Butte College (CA), a rural college situated on a remote 928 acres designated as a wildlife area, set out to create a governance structure to ensure commitment to sustainability practices in all facets of the college, with ambitious plans and goals to ensure action. Read More.
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Moraine Valley Community College:
Leading in Sustainability Governance
 As a runner up in the 2012 Green Genome Award in the category of Governance, Moraine Valley Community College (IL) has a rich history of accomplishments and initiatives in sustainability. The development of their leadership team has brought the college closer to an integrated institutional approach to sustainability. Read more. |
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An Exploration of Workforce Training Program Sustainability in the Context of Reduced Public Funding.
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