AMTEC News & Events

Maintenance 2020 Academy

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:44:00 -0500

Spartanburg Community College (SCC) and BMW Manufacturing Co. will cohost the next AMTEC Academy March 22-23, 2012. Sessions will be held at SCC with a tour on Friday at the conclusion of the Academy. For more information and registration, please visit the AMTEC Maintenance 2020 page.

AMTEC Academy to be held in Spartanburg, SC

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:15:00 -0500

The next AMTEC Academy will be cohosted by Spartanburg Community College (SCC) and BMW March 22-23, 2012. Sessions will be held at SCC with a tour of BMW Manufacturing Co. on Friday of the Academy. For more information and registration, go to the Academy information page.

Spartanburg Community College and BMW to co-host AMTEC academy at Spartanburg, SC March 22-23

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:06:00 -0500

Spartanburg Community College (SCC) and BMW Manufacturing Co. will cohost the next AMTEC Academy to be held March 22-23 in Spartanburg, SC. Sessions will be held at SCC and will conclude on Friday with a tour of the BMW manufacturing plant. The theme of the spring academy is Maintenance 2020: What Does This Mean to the Manufacturing Technicians? Participants will learn about the expectations for the future of manufacturing sustainability, the global outlook of manufacturing, global standards for technicians, and much more. Using the AMTEC manufacturing simulator as an education tool for maintenance technicians will also be demonstrated. For more information and registration information, click here for Maintenance 2020.

AMTEC Highlighted in OVAE Report

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:33:00 -0500

AMTEC is highlighted in one of the reports that was a result of the Community College Virtual Symposium held last April. The report, "Integrating Industry-Driven Competencies in Education and Training Through Employer Engagement" is one of a series of four prepared for the April 27, 2011, Community College Virtual Symposium, a project of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, held at Montgomery College, Silver Spring, Md. The series of reports is intended to spur dialogue among state and institutional leaders and identify and disseminate policies and practices proven effective in meeting the challenges mentioned above.

Recent reports have highlighted urgent issues for workforce development in the United States and have suggested that community colleges play a role in addressing them by partnering with employers to align college curricula with workplace needs. This brief describes partnership efforts, such as AMTEC, between community colleges and employers, exploring models promoting curricular change and innovation.

The report by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, "Scaling the Community College Summits: Challenges, Solutions, and Commitments," is a summary of the four Regional Community College Summits convened last winter and spring at community colleges across the country. The Regional Summits brought together over 800 attendees from 45 states. The proceedings reflect the ideas, views, and suggestions of the attendees. The reports are available on the Department of Education website, www.ed.gov.

Partners See AMTEC a Value

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:33:00 -0500

Over 80% of both industry and colleges participating in collaboration report that AMTEC is highly likely to impact building capacity by sharing good practice across education and industry and establishing benchmarks and standards including developing a standardized curriculum and assessments. These findings were part of results of the baseline survey completed by AMTEC partners and conducted by Dr. Katherine Manley, AMTEC Director of Assessments, and reported at the November meeting of the AMTEC Leadership Team. The survey was conducted during the summer of 2011 as a means to collect baseline data for which AMTEC will use to measure their success. “This information is a vital tool for AMTEC to use as a measurement to move forward to accomplish its goal of building a collaboration of education and industry partners working together to create national curriculum, assessments and a successful career pathway model.” stated Annette Parker, Principal Investigator and Executive Director.

The survey indicates that the industry partners believe that it is important for them to include AMTEC as part of their plan to train the replacements and growth of their future workforce. Over 80% of the responding industries report employment in industrial maintenance is increasing or remaining stable with high current and future demand for multi-skilled maintenance. Over 50% of the industries reported the reason to work with AMTEC is to:

Fill future vacancies created through retirements
Prepare for business growth/expansion
Address projected talent shortages
Assure business continuity
Deal with a skills gap among employees

Besides having a national curriculum and assessments, over 80% of the colleges and industries report the following as great benefits to participating in AMTEC:

Development of valuable relationships
Enhances ability to meet the needs of their constituency or clients
Ability to have a greater impact than he/she could have had on his/her own
Ability to make a contribution to the automotive manufacturing industry
All but one of the partners reported that the benefits greatly exceed or exceed any drawbacks to working with AMTEC

For additional results or more information regarding the survey, contact Annette Parker at annette.parker@kctcs.edu

AMTEC Featured in NGA Report

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400

NGA CENTER REPORT INDICATES COLLABORATION IS KEY FOR READYING THE WORKFORCE FOR A GLOBAL ECONOMY

Provides Example of How to Better Educate and Train Technical Workers for a Economically Secure Future

WASHINGTON—A new report released today by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center), A Sharper Focus on Technical Workers: How to Educate and Train for a Global Economy, provides a model for how states can work collaboratively with industry, community colleges and each other to provide opportunities for workers to build their skills and ensure America’s future economic security and prosperity.

The report outlines actions governors can take to shape a new future for job training in a way that will nurture the largest and fastest-growing industries, including:

Champion the importance of technical education and technical work to economic competitiveness and worker prosperity;
Focus first on the industrial sectors with the greatest economic impact;
Use state spending to encourage community colleges to engage in collaboration and innovation;
Develop multi-state partnerships focused on providing consistent, high-quality, industry-valued training; and
Require comprehensive outcome data to assess students’ skills and credentials gained, hold educational institutions accountable and inform policymakers.

A Sharper Focus on Technical Workers: How to Educate and Train for a Global Economy is based on lessons learned from the Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC) – a partnership of 30 community colleges and 34 auto-related plants in 12 states that worked to identify and implement wide-ranging improvements in technical education for workers in advanced automotive manufacturing environments.

“The global economy demands highly skilled workers, and states are in a position to help foster the types of education and training partnerships that can fill jobs in economic sectors that are growing at a rapid pace,” said John Thomasian, director of the NGA Center. “The AMTEC example shows that collaboration – across government, industry and higher education – may be the key that enables states to train workers and build the highly skilled workforces they need to compete.”

For more information about NGA Center Economic, Human Services and Workforce Division efforts, visit www.nga.org/center/ehsw.

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Founded in 1908, the National Governors Association (NGA) is the collective voice of the nation’s governors and one of Washington, D.C.’s most respected public policy organizations. Its members are the governors of the 50 states, three territories and two commonwealths. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the Administration on key federal issues to developing and implementing innovative solutions to public policy challenges through the NGA Center for Best Practices. For more information, go to www.nga.org .

AMTEC Hires Project Manager

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

"It is my pleasure to announce that Mr. Craig Hopkins will be joining our AMTEC National Center of Excellence on July 18, 2011 as the AMTEC Project Manager." announced Annette Parker, Principal Investigator.

Craig brings with him over thirteen years of experience in the manufacturing industry which includes extensive work experience in project management, quality control, continuous improvement, and new product launch. He was previously employed by Industrial Control Repair in Georgetown, Kentucky as an account manager. In this role, he managed the flow of outside equipment repairs for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky. Prior to that, Craig worked as a manufacturing manager at Chromatography Research Supplies in Louisville, Kentucky; as a quality assurance Manager/Production Engineer at Zims Bagging Company, in Prichard, WV; as an Industrial Engineer/Launch team expediter at Guardian Automotive Trim Division; and as an industrial engineer at Kentucky Ladder Company in Carrollton, KY.

Craig has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Louisville and completed his coursework with an M.S. in Industrial Engineering at the University of Louisville.

As project manager, he will be responsible for day-to-day operations.

Annette asks that everyone join her in welcoming Craig Hopkins to AMTEC.

AMTEC Presenting at HI TEC

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

AMTEC Principal Investigator, Annette Parker, will present at the upcoming High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HI TEC) to be held in San Francisco, CA July 25-28, 2011.

The session entitled "AMTEC Innovations in Advanced Manufacturing Education" will explore AMTEC’s innovative maintenance mechatronics curriculum, which includes a machine-focused, fault-based methodology informed by systems thinking and inquiry-based learning delivered in an open-enrollment, modularized hybrid online format. Ms. Parker will share how this curriculum can be used to increase the effectiveness of manufacturing education by coupling technical skills with critical thinking and communication, both of which are introduced in immersive virtual learning environments and reinforced through hands-on exercises using an industrial-strength trainer based on actual manufacturing equipment. The session is scheduled for Wednesday, July 27 at 3:15-4:45pm.

AMTEC partners Beth Keane, Ford Motor Co. Kentucky; Jeff Arnold, Danville Community College, Danville, Virginia; Mark Manuel, Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC), Lexington, Kentucky will be attending the conference along with Ms. Parker. Two BCTC students from the Toyota Intern Program, Christina Partin and Paul Switzer, will also participate in activities at the conference. Last year AMTEC Strategy Board member and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky partner, Caren Caton, received HI TEC's Industry Recognition Award.

AMTEC partners will be available to talk with participants and demonstrate AMTEC's exciting activities at Exhibit Booth 313 during the Technology Showcase hours.

HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technical education where technical educators, counselors, industry professionals, and technicians can update their knowledge and skills. Charged with Educating America's Technical Workforce, the event focuses on the preparation needed by the existing and future workforce for companies in the high-tech sectors that drive our nation's economy.

HI-TEC uniquely explores the convergence of scientific disciplines and technologies including:

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Energy and Environmental Technologies
Biotechnology and Chemical Process Technologies
Engineering Technologies
Information, Geospatial, & Security Technologies
Learning and Evaluation
Electronics, Micro and Nano Technologies
Best Practices in Technology Education
Technicians in the Workplace

NCATC Summer Workshop 2011

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The NCATC Summer Workshop 2011 cohosted by AMTEC and partner college Bluegrass Community and Technical College is sold out. The workshop is being held June 8-10 at the Marriott Griffin Gate in Lexington, Kentcuky. Participants will attend sessions that include the unveiling of the AMTEC curriculum and the career pathway model. Panel discussions will include industry leaders discussing their perspective regarding their needs for educating technicians for the global workforce.

AMTEC PI Presents in Michigan

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

AMTEC PI, Annette Parker, will present to the Capital Area Manufacturing Council in Lansing, Michigan May 17. Representatives from AMTEC partner college, Lansing Community College also will describe new program implementation in the Lansing area. The increasing sophistication of manufacturing technologies requires modification to the content of technical training. This is especially true for plant maintenance personnel who install, repair and troubleshoot plant machinery. The new training direction focuses on multi-skilled maintenance and integrated systems technologies and affects not only maintenance personnel but tool and die technicians and others. Members will learn about this cutting edge training emerging first in America's industrial heartland, including the Lansing area.

Annette will also appear on Captial Comeback, a video presentation series through Lansing's Business and Community Institute. Capitol Comeback takes a serious non-partisan look at the economic struggles and opportunities facing Michigan cities. Capital Comeback host Bo Garcia leads in-depth conversation on various topics with local newsmakers, politicians & community leaders to expose the audience to a variety of views. Bo Garcia is Executive Director of the Business & Community Institute (BCI) at Lansing Community College (LCC) and is charged with creating business and workforce development initiatives, and as AMTEC partner is currently working with AMTEC industry partners on marketing and sustainability.

AMTEC Partner to Participate in MATEC's Master Series

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

AMTEC partner, Dr. Stanley Chase, along with Deb Newberry and Dr. Jorge Rodriguez, will participate in MATEC's Master Series Webinars Friday, May 13 at 1:00 pm. The Webinar, "Sustaining Community College Technical Programs" will explore technology education programs as we now know them and the risk they face of being replaced by new models for workforce and economic development. Presenters will discuss the significant challenges and solutions in supporting technical programs at the nation's community colleges and universities. Dr. Chase will feature highlights of an AMTEC report with a focus on education and training for a global economy.

AMTEC Travels to Germany

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Annette Parker, AMTEC PI, will present at the first VETAS - Vocational Education and Training in the Automotive Sector Conference in Brussels. The conference takes place at Autoworld Brussels Parc du Cinquantenaire 11, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium May 9 & 10, 2011. The VETAS (Vocaltion Education and Training Automotive Sector) network conference aims to stimulate discussion and sharing among various vocational education and training (VET) key players - such as enterprises, their HRD departments and employees, social partners, providers of training and education, as well as public authorities – in their efforts to cope with the challenges that result from technical innovation, globalization and changing market
requirements.

The overall goal of the collaboration is to create a Global Automotive Technical Education Network based on already existing or upcoming systems supervised by AMTEC (USA) and DEKRA Akademie (Germany), but open for extensions to other parts of the world. This network will enhance the quality of work in the sector via better adaptation of technical education to the needs of supply, manufacturing, and service.

The collaboration between AMTEC and DEKRA began with a first meeting in Vienna in May 2010 and a followup planning visit between DEKRA (coordinator VETAS) and AMTEC in Lexington (US) in December 2010.

AMTEC to Host Summer Workshop

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

AMTEC and college partner Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) will host the National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers 2011 Summer Workshop in Lexington, Kentucky June 8-10. Sessions at the Workshop will consist of three tracks which include: Standardizing Curriculum to Meet Industry's Needs, Providing a Pipeline through Career Pathways, and Industry Perspectives on Technician Education.

For more information on the Workshop, visit our Workshop information page or visit the NCATC webpage.

AMTEC NVC Meeting

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The AMTEC National Visiting Committee (NVC) will meet March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Kentucky Community and Technical College, Versailles, KY. All NSF ATE large projects and centers are required to have a National Visiting Committee. The committee is made up of leaders in industry, education, workforce and economic development from across the nation, with local representation. They serve as advisors working with the grantees and NSF to help achieve the stated goals and objectives. The committee also assess the plans and progress of the project and report both to NSF and the project or center leadership. Committee members also provide advice to the project staff and should serve as advocates for effective projects. Although the committee members are kept apprised of the progress of the AMTEC project throughout the year, they meet annually to review the project and submit a report to NSF.

The NVC for AMTEC last met March 25 and 26, 2010 at partner college Bluegrass Community and Technical College's Advanced Manufacturing Center, Georgetown, KY.

AMTEC to Present at MARCON 2011 in Knoxville, TN

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Walt Barlow, AMTEC Director of Curriculum and Assessments, will present at the University of Tennessee's Maintainability and Realibility Center, MARCON 2011 Conference in Knoxville, TN, March 4. Barlow's presentation A Sharper Focus on Technical Workers - How to Educate and Train for the Global Economy will address the issue of corporations competing in a global economy recognize the need to reengineer their global impact, and attract, retain, and grow the skill sets of employees as strategic assets. To address the need for employee continuous learning and employee development and address worker skill deficits, the global economy, financial turbulence, and rapid technological advances, corporations have accelerated the development of business partnerships with higher education. At the same time, higher education institutions have seen a growing number of working adult students, and, therefore, see collaboration with corporations as a means to increase enrollment and revenue streams. These factors have created a unique opportunity to explore the dynamics of employment development partnerships and worker and student recruitment involving community colleges and corporations.

The presentation will examine the dynamics of a college-industry partnership through the case of a National Center of Excellence in Advanced Automotive Manufacturing Center (AMTEC) that includes community colleges from 12 states and several large automotive manufacturers, including Toyota, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and BMW.

The presentation will also highlight the promising practices of the AMTEC National Center of Excellence in Advanced Automotive Manufacturing. Topics include the National Governors Association Best Practice Case Study highlighting AMTEC, and multiple methods of data collection used by the center including the use of Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Score Card (Niven P. , 2006), The Collaboration Challenge, a theoretical model of collaboration (Austin, 2000), and program evaluations from the Community College Research Center of the Teachers College at Columbia University.

The Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) is an industry-supported center within the College of Engineering at The University of Tennessee, drawing support from a diverse range of companies, organizations and industries. Initiated in 1996 with 12 original companies participating, the RMC continues to grow and now has over 30 member companies and organizations. The RMC bridges between industry and academia to provide education, research & development, and information exchange in the application of reliability and maintenance engineering tools and concepts.

AMTEC Presents at Innovations 2011

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Annette Parker, Executive Director, Kentucky Community and Technical College System and Principal Investigator, AMTEC, presented at the Innovations 2011 Conference in San Diego, CA. The League for Innovation for the Community College's 14th annual conference is being held February 27 to March 2. The annual Innovations Conference regularly attracts a diverse group of community college educators, administrators, and staff from around the world. These attendees are the decision-makers and influencers from their respective colleges. They are seeking innovative solutions to issues affecting their campus.

Parker presented on February 27 Sharpening the Focus: Giving Technical Workers the Global Skills to Compete. "As colleges experience growth in the number of working students, corporations can re-engineer their global impact by cultivating employees as strategic assets. These factors create opportunities to explore innovation in college-industry partnerships" stated Parker.

Former KCTCS Chancellor to be Keynote Speaker

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Dr. Keith Bird, former Chancellor at the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming AMTEC Academy. The Academy entitleed Creating Career Pathways in Automotive Careers: The "How to" of Attaining Successful Pipeline Models will be hosted by AMTEC partner Alamo Community College in San Antonio, TX February 9-11, 2011.

Dr. Keith W. Bird, now Chancellor-Emeritus of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and a Senior Policy Fellow for Workforce and Postsecondary Education at the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) is a nationally renowned leader in community college development and innovation initiatives.

Dr. Bird was responsible for KCTCS’s system-wide direction of academic, student and workforce and economic development initiatives. His highly recognized KCTCS work also resulted in strategic partnerships with business and industry, secondary and postsecondary institutions, and state and federal government that increased and promoted statewide access to postsecondary education, workforce training, and lifelong learning through programs such as KY WINS, Ready-to-Work, the Center for Auto Manufacturing Excellence, the Kentucky Coal Academy, and the North American Racing Academy.

Every place Dr. Bird has worked he has been a catalyst for innovation and change through the development of major systemic initiatives. Dr. Bird received his B.A. from Alma College and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University. In 1969-70, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Free University in Berlin.
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AMTEC now on Facebook

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500

AMTEC now has a Facebook page. Become a fan and get all the updated news about AMTEC. Write on our wall! Click on the Facebook icon at the bottom right of the AMTEC homepage.

Annette Parker to Present at WDI Conference

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Annette Parker, AMTEC Executive Director and Principal Investigator, will present at the Association of American Community Colleges' Workforce Development Institute (WDI) Conference January 26-29, 2011 in Newport Beach, CA. the presentation "AMTEC Goes Global" will address global challenges facing today's automotive manufacturers. AMTEC has partnered with DEKRA Akademie GmbH, which consists of European automotive manufacturers and educators to create a Global Automotive Technical Education Network. This global structure of collaboration enables our stakeholders to follow strategies for proper implementation and continuous improvement of educational structures while taking into account the national environments that determine implementation. Come see how this global collaboration, research, benchmarking, and networking will provide data to address current and future workforce competencies.

She will also participate in the the NCATC member panel forum on Saturday. The forum "Using NCATC Member Services: The Power of Three" will present several national models that are working and expanding that involve the power of three—education, government, and industry—working together for common goals. The goals include, but are not limited to, preserving technical jobs, creating a pipeline of new technical workers, and implementing national certifications with hands-on technical skills training for students, workers, and faculty. The benefits and value of using NCATC’s member services will be the nucleus of these successful initiatives.

Visit the AMTEC Showcase at the ATE PI Conference

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400

AMTEC will present in the Showcase Session at the upcoming ATE PI Conference to be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street Northwest, Washington, DC October 27-29. AMTEC PI, Annette Parker and Project Director, Scott Jedele, will be joined by partners JoAnne Pritchard, General Motors, Global Manufacturing Systems, and Willy Kaulfersch, Ford Motor Company, Manager, Powertrain & Process Development Launch Planning and Workforce Readiness. Come by Booth 601/602, see our new look, and find out about the exciting work AMTEC is doing in standardized, modularized, on-line curriculum; national standardized assessments; and career pathways.

Annette Parker Presents at MACET

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Annette Parker, AMTEC Principal Investigator, presented at the Michigan Association of Continuing Education and Training (MACET) Conference August 12 held at the Comfort Inn Suites Hotel and Conference Center, Mt. Pleasant, MI. Her presentation "Building Blocks for a National Automotive Workforce" showed the role AMTEC is playing in the education of technicians that meet industry's needs for a stronger, competitive workforce in a global market.

AMTEC Meetings for July

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

AMTEC Leadership meetings for July include AMTEC Strategy Board (ASB) meetings Thursday, July 8 and July 22 at 3:00 pm and the AMTEC Leadership Team (ALT) on Monday, July 12 and 26 at 2:00 pm. Information regarding Live Meeting and conference call details as well as the agenda and any meeting documents will be emailed to team members.

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400

NCATC 2010 Summer Workshop "Building Green" scheduled for June 2-4 will be hosted by Santa Fe Community College. For more information and registration visit the NCATC workshop information page.

Southern Growth Policies Board Presents

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400

AMTEC to participate in the Southern Growth Policies Board conference June 7-8, 2010 to be held at the Griffith Gate Marriott Resort and Spa, Lexington, KY.

Hear speakers from Toyota, Daimler, Ford, Bridgestone, and others at a regional conference on creating the new automotive industry in the South!

Hosted by Governor Stephen Beshear, the conference--Driving the Next 20 Years: Creating the New Automotive Industry in the South, June 7-8, Lexington, KY--will celebrate the South's successes in attracting automotive investment while defining strategies to create the ideal future environment for this industry. Other speakers include Dr. David Altig, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Dr. Ed Montgomery, Director, U.S. Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers; and Jason Stein, Editor, Automotive News. A Governors' panel will examine new ways of supporting the industry, while an executive panel will highlight what the South is doing right and wrong in supporting the industry.

AMTEC Partners participating in the "Automotive Workforce Education Readiness Panel include:

Annette Parker, Versailles, KY
System Director
Kentucky Center for Excellence in Automotive Manufacturing & Workforce Education
AMTEC Principal Investigator

Beverly Hilderbrand, Gadsden, AL
CARCAM Director/Principal Investigator
AMTEC Senior Partner

Beth Keane, Louisville, KY
Launch Training and Planning Manager
Ford Louisville Truck Plant
AMTEC Senior Partner

Dr. David Just, Spartanburg, SC
Vice President, Corporate & Community Education Division
Spartanburg Community College
AMTEC Senior Partner

Jeff Arnold, Danville, VA
Vice President of Workforce Services
Danville Community College
AMTEC Senior Partner

Mark Manuel, Lexington, KY
Vice President of Workforce Solutions
Bluegrass Community and Technical College
AMTEC Senior Partner

Tony Tice, Tupelo, MS
Dean of Career and Technical Instruction
Itawamba Community College
AMTEC Partner

For more information and to register, visit https://www.southerngrowth.com/conference/conf.html.

National Visiting Committee to visit AMTEC

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:49:00 -0400

National Visiting Committee Meeting March 25 and 26

The National Visiting Committee will meet with AMTEC partners March 25 and 26 at Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Georgetown, KY located at Toyota's North American Production Service Center. AMTEC's Principal Investigator, Annette Parker, AMTEC staff, and AMTEC CoPI's will present to the Committee the actiivities regarding the progress of goals and objectives for this past year. The external evaluator, Community College Research Center, will report on the successes of these activities based on surveys and interviews conducted during the year.

The Committee will use the presentations, evaluation report, and other documentation to compile their annual report which will be submitted to the National Science Foundation, the granting agency of AMTEC.

AMTEC Leadership Team Monthly Meeting

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

AMTEC Leadership Team Monthly meeting will be March 10th, 2010 at 2:00 pm. Live Meeting information to access the meeting will be sent to partners.

National Career Pathways Network Annual Conference

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

"Achieve Success: Connecting Education and Employment", Dallas, TX For more information visit http://www.cord.org/ncpn-index.cfm

90th Annual AACC Convention

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The American Association of Community Colleges 90th Annual Convention will be April 17-20, 2010 in Seattle Washington.

The theme of this year's convention is Meeting the Challenge.

The AACC annual meeting is among the largest and most dynamic gatherings of educational leaders, attracting over 2,000 community college presidents and senior administrators, as well as international educators, representatives of business/industry and federal agencies.

For more information please visit http://www.aacc.nche.edu/newsevents/Events/convention2/Pages/default.aspx

AACC and WDI Conference (Jan 28-30)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

America Association of Community College and Workforce Development Institute (WDI) Conference will take place January 28 -30, 2010. For information and agenda go to www.aacc.nche.edu/newsevents/Events/wdi/Pages/default.aspx. Annette Parker, AMTEC PI, will lead one of the forum sessions addressing Advanced Technology Centers: Answering the Challenge.

Auto Communities and Community Colleges Meeting

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Auto Communities and Community Colleges Meeting at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel in St. Petersburg, FL. The purpose of the meeting will be to share best practices, discuss what needs to be done by federal and state authorities, and develop a network of community colleges that can coordinate best practices. This event led by Macomb Community College with support from The Brookings Institution and AMTEC will discuss ways to effectively serve our communities throughout the economic recovery. AMTEC Principal Investigator Annette Parker along with other AMTEC partners will present and discuss “From Making Do to Making a Difference – Global Standards, Assessments, and Continuous Improvement”.

Other AMTEC partners presenting are Georgetown, Kentucky partners Mark Manuel Bluegrass Community and Technical College and Caren Caton Toyota’s North America Production Support Center will present and discuss Linking Economic Development and Workforce Development Strategies. AMTEC CoPI Federico Zaragoza, Alamo Community College District, San Antonio, Texas will present on Training and Education Needs in New Auto Communities.

To register contact Gerri Pavone at 586-445-7990 or email pavoneg@mcacomb.edu.

League of Innovation Conference 2010

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

League of Innovation Conference 2010, Baltimore, MD sponsored by the Leagues for Innovations in the Community College, www.league.org/i2010/

Auto Communities and Community Colleges Reception

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Macomb Community College evening reception introducing Auto Communities and Community Colleges meeting with an informal event consisting of open dialogue between speakers, panelists, and participants. To register contact Gerri Pavone at 586-445-7990 or email pavoneg@macomb.edu.

AMTEC Kickoff Meeting (Jan 26)

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

AMTEC Kick Off and quarterly meeting in St. Petersburg. AMTEC members will assemble at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront in St. Petersburg, Florida Tuesday, January 26 for their quarterly meeting. . To register http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/216271/amtec-national-center-kickoff

CEAIE Delegation

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

CEAIE Delegation to visit and tour AMTEC, Bluegrass Community & Technical College, and Toyota in Georgetown, Kentucky.

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