Nova North Commercial, a new commercial real estate firm based in New City, is announcing its launch with a name, slogan, logo and brand identity developed by marketing students at ߲Ƶ.
Campus Technology – The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Intel and Dell Technologies are launching an 18-month initiative that will design and build a network of Artificial Intelligence Incubators at community colleges across the United States. The project is an expansion of Intel’s AI for Workforce Program, an effort to prepare current and future workers with key job skills in AI.
Rockland News – ߲Ƶ has announced a new microcredentialing initiative to help students distinguish themselves in a competitive marketplace.
Rockland Community college is preparing to train a new generation of emergency medical technicians. In response to a nationwide shortage of health care professionals, ߲Ƶ, the Workforce Development board of Rockland County, and Rockland Works, have joined forces to create a program that will fast track qualified candidates to fill those vital positions and provide guaranteed employment for ߲Ƶ students.
A shortage of EMT workers in the county has prompted area officials to make it easier to increase those numbers as concerns swirl over a new COVID-19 variant. In a press conference yesterday, ߲Ƶ president Michael Baston said the college is launching a new EMT Training Program…
News12 Long Island – ߲Ƶ announced a new expedited EMT training course to help alleviate the current shortage of staff.
The program, designed to fight the shortage of EMTs in the area and nationwide, offers three months of training with a guaranteed job, assuming participants pass the state test at the end of the course. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.
lohud – ߲Ƶ’s volleyball team has had more than a week to digest its historic achievement, but no amount of time seems to be enough for it to sink in.
߲Ƶ has been selected as a 2021 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award winner from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the nation’s oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. This national honor recognizes US colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. ߲Ƶ will be featured, along with 100 other recipients, in the November 2021 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. This is the first time ߲Ƶ has been named as a HEED Award recipient.
Each semester, the Visual and Performing Arts Department holds Skills Proficiency Tests (SPT) for students enrolled in the Theatrical Stage Combat courses. Last month, the school held its first SPT in Lightsaber. Christopher Plummer, Director of ߲Ƶ’s Cultural Arts Theatre is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and held the certification tests along with Patricia Maloney-Titland, Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. “The SPT certification test is a rigorous demonstration and examination of their new skill sets and each student challenged themselves in new and wonderful ways.” Plummer says. “While the students studied martial techniques associated with longsword, the focus of the course was Lightsaber and it was a huge success!”
