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| Date: September 19, 2000 |
Workforce Development Conference Honors Community College Business Partner and Students
RALEIGH: Community college students and a community college business partner will receive the Governor’s Awards for Excellence in Workforce Development this week. The awards will be presented during the annual Workforce Development Conference that meets Wednesday, September 20 through Friday, September 22 at the Sheraton at Four Seasons/Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro. The award banquet is at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 21.
The conference theme this year is North Carolina’s Workforce Development System: Partner for Quality! The focus is on building partnerships and providing better service to employer and job seeker customers.
The award recipients are true Workforce Development success stories, helping the state achieve its workforce development goals. In each case a North Carolina community college played a part in that success. The award recipients are:
MasterBrand Cabinets of Kinston, the Outstanding Workforce Development Employer Award Recipient is the second largest cabinet manufacturer in the United States. Employees receive education and training through the New and Expanding Industry Training Program at Lenoir Community College.
Tameka Clark of Henderson, an award recipient for Outstanding Workforce Development Youth Participants, is an Applied Science honors graduate of Vance Granville Community College. Clark began her association with the community college as a participant in the Job Training Partnership Act Program at VGCC.
Coral Fickhesen of Charlotte, another award recipient for Outstanding Workforce Development Youth Participants, was a single mother of two when she entered the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services – Work First Employment Services program in 1999. Fickhesen, a graduate of Central Piedmont Community College’s Pathways to Employment program, has exhibited exemplary job performance skills and is no longer a Work First recipient.
Daisy Walters of Greenville, an award recipient for Outstanding Workforce Development Adult Participants, was a mother of two without a GED or any employment training. Walters enrolled in a welfare-to-work program entitled Creating Opportunities for Productive Employment (Project COPE) at Pitt Community College. That move led to full employment with supervisory responsibilities.
Jacqueline Taylor of Oxford, an award recipient for Outstanding Workforce Development Adult Participants, was a divorced single parent of four with Multiple Sclerosis when she enrolled in the Job Training Partnership Act Program at Vance-Granville Community College in 1997. On May 13, 2000 she was an honors graduate in Early Childhood Education. Taylor is employed at a Henderson child care center, but her ultimate goal is to become a classroom teacher.
The North Carolina Community College System, with 759,000 students, is the third largest community college system in the United States. The System is the state=s primary agency for delivery of job training, literacy and adult education programs.
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