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New Assistant to President for Economic Development


It is with great pleasure that I welcome our new Assistant to the President for Economic Development, James W. Winston. The Board of Trustees approved his appointment during its Oct. 11 meeting.

James will lead the Workforce Development team, which develops partnerships to educate and train the community’s workforce in response to ever-changing economic needs. He begins Oct. 25 and will be based at the Damon City Campus.

James most recently served as workforce development manager for Monroe County. During his seven years there, he coordinated the Monroe County Manufacturing Partnership, a consortium that markets, recruits, educates and trains people in the community who want careers in local technical industries; expanded youth apprenticeships; increased enrollments in post-secondary technical programs; and helped establish RochesterWorks, as well as a science/technology youth camp based at MCC.

He strongly supports continuing education and training. James supervised day programming at a detention center for youth, managed an alternative school for young adults, and directed a community-based talent search program that helped more than 300 inner-city students get into college.

In transitioning into his original career choice of technology, he worked as an engineer and managed the local General Motors’ apprenticeship program. He later established and managed training programs for skilled trades at Xerox Corporation.

James holds an M.P.A. and a B.S. from SUNY Brockport and an A.S. from MCC.

Please help me in welcoming James Winston to MCC!

R. Thomas Flynn
President
10/12/2004