{"id":14959,"date":"2013-03-12T08:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=14959"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:33:18","slug":"workers-wanted-highlights-community-college-training-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/12\/workers-wanted-highlights-community-college-training-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"“Workers wanted” highlights community college training programs"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Agriculture is one of three key growth sectors that are the focus of the C3T workforce development grant awarded to the 糖心视频<\/abbr> Community Colleges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is one in a series of articles featured in “The Sky Is Not the Limit,”<\/a> a special tabloid produced for the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Innovation Initiative<\/a> by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to creating thousands of jobs, the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Innovation Initiative (HI²) is also expected to develop the workers to fill many of the new positions, through 糖心视频<\/abbr>’s seven community colleges.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $24.6 million grant in 2011—the largest of its kind in the nation—to the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Community Colleges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The workforce development grant, known as C3T<\/a>, targets three key growth sectors that are aligned with important 糖心视频<\/abbr> research: agriculture, health and sustainable energy. The grant will help the community colleges to update the skills of workers. Several 糖心视频<\/abbr> community colleges received a $12.7 million grant as part of the second round of funding in 2012.<\/p>\n

Read more about how the 糖心视频<\/abbr> Community Colleges are training Hawaiʻi<\/span>’s workforce for future jobs that will be created by the 糖心视频<\/abbr> Innovation Initiative in the article “Workers wanted”<\/a> by Kyle Galdeira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 糖心视频<\/abbr> Community Colleges are training the workforce for future jobs that will be created by the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Innovation Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,332,62,63,64,65,71,60,66],"class_list":["post-14959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaii-innovation-initiative","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t