$530,000 in scholarship money was awarded to HCC students
Houston Community College (HCC) partnered with The Gulf Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA) to provide scholarships and career training to low-income resident of the Gulf Coast area. As of April 2012, more than $530,000 in scholarship money was awarded 300 HCC students, who studied 23 different certificate areas ranging from Accelerated Teacher to online, business, health, construction, transportation and IT. The Ascension II Skills Program is part of GCCSA’s Ascension Series that focuses on the development of assets for low-income students wishing to pursue continuing education certifications. The Ascension to Skills Program is a scholarship program that completely funds the tuition and other ...
HCC receives Department of Transportation Safety Training grant
By Simone Small, Staff Writer, Division of Extended Learning Houston Community College’s Commercial Truck Driving Training program received a Department of Transportation (DoT) Safety Training grant for $175,529.00 that will help put Houston to work. This training program is designed to assist people who live in underserved communities as well as individuals who are unemployed or under-employed. With the grant’s assistance, HCC will prepare 45 students for careers as well-qualified commercial truck drivers using instructional materials and methods that emphasize safety principles. The grant will partially cover student scholarships and underwrite the truck driving program. The grant will be in effect for ...
Houston Community College received a $1 million dollar grant
Houston Community College received a $1 million dollar grant Houston Community College received a $1 million dollar grant to train health information technology specialists thanks to The Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals. The two-year grant is part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and was awarded in September 2011, but has been extended until 2013. The purpose of the grant is to provide an intensive six-month certificate program designed to prepare students to work as a HITECH IT health professional to support the adoption and implementation of electronic health records. The grant was ...
Plant Design Management System (PDMS)
Houston Community College has been successfully operating classes in Plant Design Management System (PDMS) for the past four years. PDMS is used predominantly by offshore and petrochemical design industries. The software is also used for engineering, design and construction projects, chemical, process water treatment, and power plants, and paper and pulp manufacturing. PDMS also has a marine application. This true spec driven database application uses a proprietary relational database structure. In the past year, related job prospects in the oil and gas industry have skyrocketed, creating more opportunities for beginning PDMS technicians—giving HCC students the unique opportunity to get state-of the-art ...
Continuing Education Instructor Recognized for Volunteer Work
Pauline Tremaine almost didn’t go to church the evening her friend shared his story about volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters. She almost missed seeing the light in his eyes as he talked about the positive experiences the organization brought to his life. But because she went that night 14 years ago, she forever changed both her life and the life of then 6-year-old Betty James. “If I had succumbed to staying at home and not attending the young adults’ church meeting that one fateful evening, I would never (have) learned much about Big Brothers Big Sisters from a friend ...
Continuing Education News
$530,000 in scholarship money was awarded to HCC students
Houston Community College (HCC) partnered with The Gulf Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA) to provide scholarships and career training to low-income resident of the Gulf Coast area. As of April 2012, more than $530,000 in scholarship money was awarded 300 HCC students, who studied 23 different certificate areas ranging from Accelerated Teacher to online, business, [...]
HCC receives Department of Transportation Safety Training grant
By Simone Small, Staff Writer, Division of Extended Learning Houston Community College’s Commercial Truck Driving Training program received a Department of Transportation (DoT) Safety Training grant for $175,529.00 that will help put Houston to work. This training program is designed to assist people who live in underserved communities as well as individuals who are unemployed [...]
Houston Community College received a $1 million dollar grant
Houston Community College received a $1 million dollar grant Houston Community College received a $1 million dollar grant to train health information technology specialists thanks to The Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals. The two-year grant is part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and was [...]
Plant Design Management System (PDMS)
Houston Community College has been successfully operating classes in Plant Design Management System (PDMS) for the past four years. PDMS is used predominantly by offshore and petrochemical design industries. The software is also used for engineering, design and construction projects, chemical, process water treatment, and power plants, and paper and pulp manufacturing. PDMS also has [...]
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