Holyoke Community College offers employers conference on retaining and recruiting workers

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Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce

'Training and Workforce Options' is a program offered by Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College

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Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College joined efforts in October to establish Training and Workforce Options, or “TWO,” in which the two i... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Springfield

Charters for two new proposed schools granted in Springfield and Holyoke

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Comment Mentions:   Springfield Technical Community College   West Springfield   Springfield

New charter schools in Springfield, Holyoke recommended by Massachusetts Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester

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...aystate Academy Charter School in Springfield and the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School in Holyoke are among the four schools recommended by Mitchell Chester, state commissioner of elementary and se......ate Health. Once approved, the school is slated to open in September of 2013 and will be located at Springfield Technical Community College, Robinson said. It will operate in partnership with STCC and Baystate Health, he said. “The entire ... (Read Full Article)

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Higher education institutions turn out a well-prepared workforce which helps attract business

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...en training workers in the fields of precision machining, healthcare and early childhood education. Springfield Technical Community College is taking the lead in training workers in green technologies through the MassGreen initiative, said......cy technicians, a position for which training is offered at schools like Springfield Technical and Holyoke community colleges. These companies expressing interest in Western Massachusetts want to know “is t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   American International College   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College

Momentum Building

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One of the main marketing taglines for the Scibelli Enterprise Center at Springfield Technical Community College is ‘Business Building.” This explains both what the facility is — a facility housing small business...... to the college, such as T.W.O., the workforce-training initiative undertaken in collaboration with Holyoke Community College, and the MassGreen Initiative, a program designed to train people for jobs in gre... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College

Taking Center Stage

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...usinesswest.com Previous Top Entrepreneurs • 2010: Bob Bolduc, founder and CEO of Pride • 2009: The Holyoke Gas & Electric Department • 2008: Arlene Kelly and Kim Sanborn, founders of Human Resource Solution...... DiGeronimo, then-principals of Concourse Communications • 1999: Andrew Scibelli, then-president of Springfield Technical Community College • 1998: Eric Suher, president of E.S. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Big Y Foods   MassMutual   Springfield Technical Community College

Breaking Down the Report Card

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...leges are successfully training and retraining thousands of individuals. Bill Messner, president of Holyoke Community College, agreed, and took exception to some of the report’s primary recommendations, incl......fore answering his own question. Ira Rubenzahl Ira Rubenzahl Meanwhile, Ira Rubenzahl, president of Springfield Technical Community College, said that, while many of the report’s conclusions can be debated, its basic argument — that commu... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Greenfield Community College

Editorial: Massachusetts' community colleges have a critical mission

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...ble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print stcc entrance.jpg File photo | The RepublicanThe entrance to Springfield Technical Community College Western Massachusetts community college presidents have raised some legitimate concerns about a new......me and time again that what’s true for Greater Boston is not always true for Western Massachusetts. Holyoke Community College President William F. Messner noted that community colleges in Massachusetts recen... (Read Full Article)

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Vocational high schools in Western Massachusetts could offer associate degree programs in the future

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...based Collaborative for Educational Services that now helps run William J. Dean Technical High in Holyoke and also offers vocational programs for the Department of Youth Services and for youth with learnin... (Read Full Article)

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Editorial: 'TWO' is better than one for workforce training

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... invoke the old adage: “Two heads are better than one.” And when the problem is workforce training, Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Community College believe two schools are better than one. Putting that belief into action, the col... (Read Full Article)

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Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Communtiy College join forces for worker training | masslive.com

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...bsite – www.trainingandworkforceoptions.com and phone number, (413) 755-6100. Operating separately, Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College educated a total of about 1,000 employees on behalf of a number of local companies, Hayden said. J.... (Read Full Article)

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UMass receives $20 million grant from National Science Foundation

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...immediate effect on the economy, with every dollar brought in means more than $2 in spending. Mount Holyoke College is a partner in the grant. Watkins said they are also working with Springfield Technical Community College along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, among others. On ... (Read Full Article)

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Community colleges in Greenfield, Holyoke and Springfield win grants in new Massachusetts competition

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...ingfield Technical Community College received $144,125; Greenfield Community College, $122,004 and Holyoke Community College, $70,000. Ira H. Rubenzahl, president of Springfield Technical Community College, said the grant will be used to expand an existing program that involves intensive counseling for 1... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College

Profile in Business

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...rtfolio of managed properties is diversified, including everything from the PeoplesBank building in Holyoke to the the Basketball Hall of Fame complex in Springfield, a contract the company earned last year.... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   American International College   Springfield Technical Community College   Baystate Health

Richard Freeland's 'Vision Project' aims to get 29 Massachusetts public higher-education campuses moving in same direction

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...hare Email Print STCC garvy.JPG Republican file photoGarvey Hall is the administration building at Springfield Technical Community College. By MARY MOORE Boston Business Journal When Richard Freeland launched the Vision Project a year ago......epublican file photoStudents head for classes on the steps of the Frost Building on the campus of Holyoke Community College. Community colleges are seen as a key part of the Vision Project of having 29 ... (Read Full Article)

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Workforce in Progress

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...area residents sought employment assistance at the REB’s one-stop career centers in Springfield and Holyoke (FutureWorks and Career Point, respectively), but fewer than half were able to secure jobs. At the ......the resources at several local companies along with local vocational technical high schools and Springfield Technical Community College, which is a major venue because it has a mechanical engineering technology program,” Cruise said. “... (Read Full Article)

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The Class of 2011

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...r of BusinessWest’s 40 Under Forty class of 2008. He is currently chair of the Board of Trustees at Springfield Technical Community College (from which he graduated), and has long been active with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Springf......den • Jeffrey Hayden, director of the Kittrredge Center for Business and Workforce Development at Holyoke Community College, which houses a number of workforce-development programs, the Mass Export Center,... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Western New England University

Springfield to partner with Massachusetts Broadband Institute on MassBroadband 123 high-speed Internet

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...Richard E. Neal and Springfield Mayor Domenic J. Sarno held at the Scibelli Enterprise Center at Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park. The facility at One Federal Street is important because it is at the junction of...... designed to bring more service into underserved urban neighborhoods in cities like Springfield and Holyoke. Through MassBroadband 123, the Broadband Institute is completing the “middle mile” connection betw... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Domenic J. Sarno   Springfield Technical Community College   Springfield

Innovators hold key place in region

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...alized by Qteros in Chicopee; • And the enhanced renewable power generation and connectivity by the Holyoke Gas & Electric Co. that helped to attract the high-speed computing center to Holyoke. We also see innovation in the many manufacturing companies still operating here. The transition fr......gists in the private sector. The Scibelli Enterprise Center, located in the Technology Park at Springfield Technical Community College and managed in conjunction with UMass-Amherst, is ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield Technical Community College   Springfield

The State We’re In

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...ne level or another. Examples abound, from the presence of Liberty Mutual in the Technology Park at Springfield Technical Community College to the high-performance computing center in Holyoke; from the tax incentives recently awarded to Smith & Wesson in exchange for its pledge to create 22... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   MassMutual   Springfield Technical Community College

A Matter of Agglomeration

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...and countries around the globe. In Western Mass., clusters have existed in Springfield (gunmakers), Holyoke (paper and textiles manufacturers), Westfield (buggy-whip makers), and other communities, as well a......igher learning, its existing bases of like companies, facilities like the business incubator at Springfield Technical Community College, and the branding opportunities created by the Knowledge Corridor, said Wright. “We’ve got some gre... (Read Full Article)

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Away in Geneva, the World Wide Web was born on Christmas Day

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Adrian, who now leads UMass’ efforts behind the Massachusetts Green High Speed Computer Center in Holyoke, was with the National Science Foundation back in the 19980s. They used the Internet which had alre...... and technical support to companies. Matthew S. Crocker, president of Crocker Communications in the Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park, said corporate America depends on the Web. “It’s the core of their business, its a... (Read Full Article)

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UMass president Jack Wilson: Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center will "put Holyoke on the map"

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...igh-performance computing center’s real value as an economic development tool will be as proof that Holyoke can take on large-scale high-technology projects and get them done, University of Massachusetts Pre......said the computing center’s impact will be felt regionally. Center backers are already working with Springfield Technical Community College and they plan to expose students from elementary and high schools tooth center and cutting-edge com... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Springfield Technical Community College   Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce