President’s Comments

Major restructuring Workforce Education and recapitalization of the Corporate Training (certification) program.

• The SPC Board reviewed this work at its meeting of October 2014 and approved a restructuring plan at the meeting of March 2015; under the leadership of Dr. Jim Connolly, the plan has been implemented and training for the Global Corporate College was scheduled;

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President’s Comments

• SPC received $332,304 for the 560 industry certifications awarded during the 14-15 reporting year.

• SPC ranked:

– 6th overall in the number of certifications reported throughout the FCS.

– 1st in the number of students earning CompTIA Network+ (20)

– 1st in the number of students earning Cisco Certified Network Associate (11)

– 1st in the number of students earning Java certification (4) - we were the only college to report this certification

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President’s Comments

• In addition to these certificates, our Corporate Training Program awarded an additional 474 certificates or licensures that are not eligible for state incentive funding but which lead directly to employment opportunities;

• The Learn to Earn program continues to provide quality short course training opportunities that are popular with our citizens; in the current year we will provide more than 3,700 training experiences, a growth of 6.5% over the past year; the total enrollment in the program since its initiation four years ago now exceed 14,000!

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