Sentences with phrase «businesses and community colleges»

Miami Dade College offers at - risk and struggling students access to the nationwide Year Up program, which brings businesses and community colleges together to provide a mix of education and hands - on work experience.

And many colleges and universities are reaching out more and more to work with businesses and community colleges to expand, better prepare, and diversify their pool of applicants.

Not exact matches

Secondly, there needs to be more collaboration between colleges and universities and the small business / start - up communities in their area.

Community colleges are advancing entrepreneurship in their communities by providing access points to support local startups and small businesses.

Speaking at the 20th graduation of Goldman Sachs's 10,000 Small Businesses program at LaGuardia Community College on Tuesday, the billionaire businessmen discussed a variety of issues, including regulation, talent acquisition, and cybersecurity.

Malls of the future have an opportunity to fulfill other community needs besides commerce, June Williamson, an architecture professor at the City College of New York and an author of «Retrofitting Suburbia,» told Business Insider.

And today large businesses are starting to partner with community colleges to ensure a steadier stream of skilled workers.

At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

«We are excited to be able to partner with Cumberland Advisors and the Global Interdependence Center to offer this event to members of our community again this year,» said Dr. James Curran, dean of the College of Business at USFSM.

Derek has presented to audiences for SMX, ClickZ, Business Wire and Microsoft, has been a guest lecturer at Bentley College, and is active in a range of New England communities supporting online marketing.

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

«Uber should come to Oakand as a full partner and connect with Oakland unified schools, its community colleges and universities to forge a direct employment, business and leadership pipeline from the East Bay community to Uber,» Jackson said.

A committed leader with an interest in both business and education, Cardenas is a board member of several organizations including Discover The Palm Beaches, the Florida Atlantic University College of Education and the bi-partisan Council of Community Leaders, which seeks to shape public policy.

Kim also serves as a board member with the following: the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Community Business Diversity Council, the Women's College Hospital Investment Committee, and the United Corporation (a listed closed - end fund).

Over 300 guests representing: the investment and life science business communities; Ontario universities, colleges, hospitals and research institutes; and private donors and all three levels of government that have contributed to the project, are expected today at the Design Exchange in Toronto.

Government and community organizations recognize the need for small business college courses and most communities across the United States and Canada...

Bowie State University has become the first institution to offer business administration programs at the Laurel College Center, following a signed partnership agreement with the higher education center and Howard and Prince George's community colleges...

Some college is preferred, as are outgoing personalities and a desire to help other small businesses in their community be successful.

This station has put together a consortium of businesses, schools and colleges, churches, hospitals, and community agencies, which already is helping reeducate people when they are displaced by «technology,» finding them find new jobs, training leaders in the areas of community services, and facilitating the discussion of common community projects.

Since rejoining the family business in 1997, Patrick Ford expanded its international presence by exhibiting at 36 international trade shows in seven countries and has spoken at the World Trade Center in North Carolina, Wake Technical College Business and Industry Center, and for the N.C. Community Collegebusiness in 1997, Patrick Ford expanded its international presence by exhibiting at 36 international trade shows in seven countries and has spoken at the World Trade Center in North Carolina, Wake Technical College Business and Industry Center, and for the N.C. Community CollegeBusiness and Industry Center, and for the N.C. Community College System.

Renaissance Farm has been in business for 5 years and currently employs 5 people including 2 culinary school interns who will continue on to Manchester Community College Culinary program.

Other partners include Durham County, Durham Public Schools, Durham Technical Community College, North Carolina Central University as well as local businesses and non-profit organizations.

«Many would - be small business owners in the community are stopped in their tracks when they try to get loans from banks to start their businesses,» Gillibrand told small business owners and microlenders at Farmingdale State College.

Cuomo, who until recently had a good relationship with the business community, has also worked to try to encourage more higher paying jobs, through tax free zones at college campuses to attract new high tech companies, and a property tax cap.

Existing businesses, both in New York and out - of - state, would also qualify so long as they created new jobs and had a mission related to the academic mission of the university or community college.

He studied business administration at Ulster County Community College and economics and international relations at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Excerpt: «Link skilled workforce training at community colleges to local businesses so students are prepared for area jobs and are ready to hire upon graduation.»

The Leadership Council as follows: Adrienne Adams (Queens Community Board 12); Rhonda Binda (Jamaica Center BID); Brian Browne (St. John's University); Ricardi Calixte (Queens Economic Development Corporation); Tonya Cantlo - Cockfield (Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning); Clive Dawkins (Property Owner); Kevin J. Forrestal (Queens Community Board 8); Deepmalya Gosh (The Child Center of New York); Glenn Greenidge (Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District); Michael Griffith (New York City Department of Transportation) Tyrel Hankerson (Resident); Ian Harris (Community Board 12); Howard Hecht (Community Member); Cathy Hung (Jamaica Center for Arts ad Learning / Jamaica Performing Arts Center); Derek Irby (165th Street Mall Improvement Association); Bilal Karriem (Queens Community Board 12); Malikka Karteron (Resident); Philippa Karteron (Resident); Michele Keller (Queens Community Board 12); Tameka Pierre - Louis (Civic Leader); Justin Rogers (Greater Jamaica Development Corporation); Pierina Ana Sanchez (Regional Plan Association); Aaron Schwartz (Commercial Property Owner); Earl Simons (York College); Nakita Vanstory (LaGuardia Community College - Justice Community Program); Bernard Warren (Jamaica YMCA); Richard Werber (King Manor Museum); Jonathan White (Community Member); Montgomery Wilkinson (Resident); Nadezhda Williams (Community Based Organization) and Tajuana Hamm (Designee for NYS Senator James Sanders, Jr.).

The Mid-Hudson region's only business that claimed job creation by the end of 2015, Sustainable Waste Power Systems, has an office at the sprawling former IBM campus near Kingston and qualified for START - UP in part because Ulster Community College declared the IBM campus an off - shoot of its institution.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

CUNY Chancellor James B. Milliken praised Dr. Brown's tenure as president of BCC by saying, «During his 17 years of exemplary service as president, Dr. Brown intensified [Bronx Community] College's outreach to New York City's economic and educational institutions through partnerships with business and industry.»

A retired school principal and former Ulster County Community College trustee among other things, the sprightly Finch remains active in his real - estate business.

Groups eligible for funding include community associations, community gardens, friends of park groups, housing development groups, nonprofits, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, and private businesses.

In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.

The website is offered by Rochester College Access Network, a program of REF which is a community collaborative involving local colleges and universities, not - for - profit groups, philanthropic groups, the Rochester City School District and local businesses.

Dutchess County is located at the center of a vibrant business community in the Hudson Valley — which is home to more than 1.2 million highly - skilled workers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, with much attributed to our award - winning colleges and universities, such as Vassar College and the Culinary Institute of America.

The commission also includes: Dall Forsythe, a former state budget director; Jim Wetzler, a former state tax commissioner; Heather Briccetti, the president and C.E.O. of the New York State Business Council; Bill Rudin, a senior advisor at Brown & Weinraub; Jack Quinn, the former congressman and president of Erie Community College; and Denis M. Hughes, former president of NYS AFL - CIO.

Catalan, 18, of Riverhead, said she came from Guatemala when she was 9 and now studies business at Suffolk County Community College.

He is a graduate of Henninger High School in Syracuse and holds an associate's degree in business technology from Onondaga Community College.

If the $ 15 million federal grant comes through, Onondaga Community College will be able to partner with local businesses and place graduates in a job and train local residents in the growing field of mechatronics.

Indicating the strong support in the community for such action, Poloncarz was joined by Sawrie Becker, Erie County Commissioner of Public Advocacy, Jesse L. Burnette, Director of the Erie County Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, Sheri Scavone, Executive Director of the WNY Women's Foundation, Sara Vescio, Executive Director of the Canisius College Women's Business Center, Jill Ann Robbins - Jabine, CEO of the YWCA, Donna Berry, President of the YWCA Board of Directors, and other community members as he signed the Executive Order.

He said he holds an associate degree from Onondaga Community College, a bachelor's degree in business administration from Le Moyne College and a master of business administration from the University of Phoenix.

Businesses and organizations being honored by LMV are: Kids Oneida and Mohawk Valley Community College.

He has worked as a NYS Certified Business Advisor with the Onondaga Small Business Development Center at Onondaga Community College since 2009, providing business development planning and analysis to small and medium sized enteBusiness Advisor with the Onondaga Small Business Development Center at Onondaga Community College since 2009, providing business development planning and analysis to small and medium sized enteBusiness Development Center at Onondaga Community College since 2009, providing business development planning and analysis to small and medium sized entebusiness development planning and analysis to small and medium sized enterprises.

She is self - employed in her own businesses, and has attended Education Hudson Valley Community College and ACC continuing education.

Other Central New York colleges approved to sponsor businesses for the program include OCC, SUNY Oswego and Cayuga Community College in Auburn.

He is a 1984 graduate of Rondout Valley High School and attended Ulster County Community College from 1987 through 1998, majoring in accounting, with a minor in business management.

Koch graduated from Erie Community College in May with a degree in business administration and is planning to pursue a bachelor's degree.

Jimino said housing is being built in Brunswick and North Greenbush along with student housing at Hudson Valley Community College, providing more consumers for area businesses.

To make certain our County performs well in the battle for state dollars, we've brought together three recognized leaders to help secure the resources: Rockland Community College President Dr. Cliff L. Wood, Rockland Business Association President / CEO Al Samuels and Rockland County's new Director of Economic Development, Calherbe Monel.