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Grant Program Could Bring Jobs to Upstate New York


On July 18, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer announced his push to secure $14.6 million for a SUNY consortium to fund worker training and education programs that will help unemployed workers learn skills essential to securing local jobs in emerging industries. Twenty-six community colleges, (including MCC), partnered to submit a grant proposal to the Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program (TAACCCT). Schumer worked directly with SUNY to develop the application and personally lobbied the Department of Labor and the Administration to grant this award to New York.

WHEC Reporter Amanda Ciavarri interviewed MCC Dean of Science, Health and Business Laurel Sanger about how the TAACCCT grant would help establish a surgical technician degree program at MCC
https://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3102670.shtml?cat=566

MCC was also noted in a related article published in the July 18 issue of The Wall Street Journal
https://online.wsj.com/article/APfd0836fb73224def962d77a1439a0109.html?KEYWORDS=Schumer

Rosanna Condello
College and Community Relations
07/22/2013