Workforce Development Articles

Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering a new program that makes it easy for businesses to provide high-quality training for their employees no matter how many they have or where they're located. WDCE has partnered with ed2go.com to offer hundreds of noncredit, online, instructor-facilitated employee-training courses.

Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology will host an Autodesk User Group meeting on Aug. 13. The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in Penn's Inn at the Bush Campus Center.

The Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at Pennsylvania College of Technology celebrates its 20th graduating class this summer. In honor of this landmark, the program, in concert with Alumni Relations and Workforce Development & Continuing Education, sponsored a full day of educational and social events for alumni on May 30.

The next Medical Assistant class at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus, located three miles east of Wellsboro, is scheduled to begin in August.

Forty participants from nine states, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines recently visited Pennsylvania College of Technology for the 10th Annual Extrusion Seminar and Hands-On Workshop with world-renowned extrusion consultant Chris Rauwendaal and Penn College plastics professor Kirk M. Cantor.

Two representatives of a much-heralded workforce-training network administered by Pennsylvania College of Technology outlined the program's structure and successes during a recent conference in Denver, Colo. Thomas J. Venditti, statewide director of the Workforce & Economic Development Network of Pennsylvania, and Larry L.

Marking a quarter-century of providing workforce and industry training and education to businesses and individuals in the Northern Tier, the North Campus of Pennsylvania College of Technology held a 25th anniversary celebration Tuesday for current and former staff and students and members of the local community.

The Factory Built Housing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, in conjunction with the Central Pennsylvania Factory Built Housing Partnership, recently conducted a training program for residential builders through the Green Advantage organization.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering an Administrative Professionals Day event on Wednesday, April 23, to honor administrative professionals, secretaries and office workers. The program, which will run from 8-9:30 a.m., begins with a breakfast buffet at Le Jeune Chef, the college's fine-dining restaurant. Tracy L.

A group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently surveyed area manufacturers about their use of technology, coming away with a heightened appreciation of the region's industrial assets and the challenges that face those doing business in Central Pennsylvania. Three of them Melissa A. Miller, a technology management major from Montoursville; Joseph R.