Organizational Example:
Sinclair Community College
Organization/Program |
Sinclair Community College Dayton , OH |
Program Purpose |
To effectively meet local employer training needs and prepare students to enter the local job market. |
Program Description |
Sinclair Community College ’s Business Training & Development Group, located at Sinclair's Learning Center , works with employers to create customized, workforce development training programs to meet specific needs and company goals. These non-credit programs offer comprehensive business solutions that attract over 3,000 individuals, companies, and organizations every year. A wide range of expertise is offered in everything from computer training to management development. Facilitators deliver training at the Learning Center facility or at the company’s site. Created in 1993, the school’s Advanced Integrated Manufacturing ( AIM Center focuses on helping manufacturing companies solve critical path problems, assess training needs in relation to these problems, and provide a customized course offering to meet needs. Like The Learning Center, AIM’s programs are non-credit and serve the workforce development needs of local employers. AIM works with approximately 40-50 companies per year, with each partnership lasting between two to four years. Sinclair Community College recognized that skill mismatches between companies and the workforce were a local problem. In order to remedy this problem, the college established numerous partnerships with business and industry that have resulted directly in the development of specialized curriculum that is taken for credit. These vocational courses are tightly tied to industry standards, and the associated degrees have documented learning competencies that were established with the assistance of advisory committees, professional bodies, and employers.
In addition, IT@Sinclair, based at Sinclair Community College , addresses the shortage of IT professionals in the region by working with local industry to develop credit and non-credit IT curricula that educate students for rapidly changing IT competencies needed in the workplace. The local IT industry includes approximately 1,100 companies that employ more than 21,000 people in high skill, high wage positions. Focusing on a lifelong learning model, IT@Sinclair develops courses and programs for: high school students via the Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium, associates degree students, technical and industry certification exams, and professional development initiatives. |
Progress |
In 2005, Sinclair’s faculty and staff directly served over 79,453 individuals in college courses and training solutions. |
Contact Information |
Karen Stiles, Manager, Corporate Outreach & The Learning Center
Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street Dayton , OH T: 937-512-3000 |
Information from the college’s website, from Karen Stiles at Sinclair Community College , and from Flint & Associates, 1999.