Workforce Development Articles

The Weatherization Training Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology held its first Building Performance Institute training and certification event during the week of Jan. 12. Weatherization staff representing the Central Community Action Program, SEDA-COG, STEP Inc. and the Westmoreland County Weatherization Program participated in the four-day event.

The Weatherization Training Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology announces its affiliation with the Building Performance Institute. As a BPI affiliate, WTC will be aligned with a nationally recognized credentialing process and provide an enhanced career path for Pennsylvania Weatherization Assistance Program field staff and private-sector building-performance contractors.

With the arrival of another home-heating season, federal funding has been renewed for an acknowledged statewide leader in training thousands of technicians to improve the energy efficiency, health, safety and comfort of their clients' homes and businesses.

Pennsylvania College of Technology and Penn State Cooperative Extension are collaborating to form the Marcellus Shale Education & Training Center, which will provide a wide variety of resources to the community and the oil-and-gas industry.

The School of Health Sciences and Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology will sponsor a health literacy workshop on Oct. 3. The workshop, titled "What It Is, Why It Matters, How You Can Help," will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in Penn's Inn on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center.

Members of the information technology staff at the IMC one of Pennsylvania's seven Industrial Resource Centers recently traveled to conferences in Florida and Texas. Steve Shaible, Zane Patalive and Kenny Steinbacher attended the TechEd conference at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center in June, and Shaible and Patalive took part in July's Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston.

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.