Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement

Calling all recruits!

Join us for an interactive pre-conference workshop on “Becoming a Social Media Superhero.” Don’t be a damsel or lad in distress and let the villains take over. Power up your knowledge and develop your social media superhero skills exploring social media management techniques, content creation methods, and how to overcome common ‘catastrophic’ situations in a hands on and engaging atmosphere. Together we’ll grow your network instantly and provide you with support that will give you traction immediately as a Social Media Superhero!

Check the CEANY Conference Website soon for registration details!

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Community Partnership: Environmental Education and Conservation

Westchester Community College’s Division of Workforce Development and Community Education’s new partnership with the Westmoreland Sanctuary of Mt. Kisco is based on the premise that the health of our environment and natural world depends on the committed generation of today to pass the torch of appreciation, understanding, and respect of the natural world to future generations.

The college is partnering with the Sanctuary this fall to offer these workshops:

• Bird Banding
• Guided Hike: Animal Tracks and Signs
• Wilderness Survival: Shelter
• Wilderness Survival: Fire
• Wilderness Survival: Cooking
• Colonial Candle Making
• Tree Identification

All classes are held onsite at the Westmoreland Sanctuary. Students register through the college, and then the net revenue is shared with the Sanctuary as per a contractual agreement we’ve negotiated with them.

For more information about this and other partnerships, please contact us at workforceandcommunity@sunywcc.edu.

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry High School Dual Enrollment Experience

Madison Morley wanted to prepare herself for vet school. In her senior year of high school, she took a SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) course.

She was then offered a summer three credit research internship working with ESF’s Dr. Ruth Yanai in the MELNHE (Multiple Element Limitation in Northern Hardwood Ecosystems) lab on the ESF campus where high school students support the lab’s efforts in a forest nutrient cycling project. The lab work includes leaf and root sorting, soil processing, building sap flow sensors and data entry. The internship experience enabled her to present her research project to her peers at part of ESF’s Environmental Summit, held each year on the ESF campus, before her freshman year had even begun!

For more information, please use this link: http://www.esf.edu/melnhe/

Submitted by Maura H. Stefl, SUNY ESF

Turning a Life Around in Eight Short Weeks

Displaced Homemakers accepted into Westchester Community College’s Project Transition Program, funded by the NYS Department of Labor, expect to gain computer skills in the 8-week course. What awaits them is a complete career makeover to prepare for a job in today’s market.

“Training students with computer skills without teaching them how to find a job is like asking a carpenter to build a house with only one tool,” said Barbara Loizeaux, the program’s Job Search Instructor. Resume writing, job search strategies, social media workshops and written and verbal presentation skills are taught in addition to Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and QuickBooks. Immediate feedback is provided by mock interviewers.

“Project Transition supports the mission of the college,” said Ann Rubenzahl, Assistant Dean of Workforce Development and Community Education at Westchester Community College.

For more information, please contact Ms. Rubenzahl at ann.rubenzahl@sunywcc.edu

By Alice C. Walsh, Program Specialist, Project Transition

CUNY Colleges approved to pilot Second Chance Pell

In Fall 2016, CUNY will offer courses for college credit and industry-recognized certification to 435 incarcerated individuals through a partnership of John Jay College, Hostos Community College and LaGuardia Community College. This initiative has been approved by the US Education Department under the “Second Chance Pell” program and will start at Otisville prison and Queensboro Correctional Facility.

For more information, please contact jmackillop@lagcc.cuny.edu

LaGuardia Community College Awarded US Department of Labor TechHire Grant

LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC)’s TechIMPACT $3.9 million project will offer accelerated tech training, paid internships and jobs to young adults, in partnership with General Assembly, Udacity, and the Software Guild, with tools created by industry experts at large tech companies like Google and Facebook.

Based on the first-ever analysis of NYC tech skills supply and demand, in partnership with LinkedIn, training will focus on web development, Java, and computer network support.

For more information, please contact jmackillop@lagcc.cuny.edu

Q: Why don’t the circles in the Venn diagram following Jane MacKillop’s article overlap?

A: To find out and to read about the programs and services for people reentering the community on release from jail or prison, click read more.