HCC Corporate College Receives Grant to Train Employees at Ben E. Keith
HOUSTON (April 4, 2013) – HCC Corporate College is teaming up with Ben E. Keith Foods, the eighth largest institutional foodservice distributor in the nation, to train close 100 distribution workers to work at the food giant’s recently built 475,000-square-foot distribution center in Missouri City, TX. The training was made possible by a $69,000 Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) grant to fund logistics training to develop a skilled workforce to meet the specific needs of Ben E. Keith Foods. With the help of HCC, Ben E. Keith workers will pursue the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) Certified Logistics Associate (CLA) Certification. The purpose ...
Corporate College and The Center for Healthcare Professionals Launch Dental AssistantTraining
HOUSTON [June 11, 2012] - To meet the changing needs of the dental industry, Houston Community College’s Coleman College for Health Sciences and Corporate College department are pleased to announce the availability of Dental Assistant Advanced Certification Training. This new training addresses recent changes to the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners that now allows dental assistants to perform both Coronal Polishing and Pit and Fissure Sealant procedures. Because these skills are not part of most dental assistants’ basic training, the TSBDE requires that dental assistants be trained and certified in each of these skills before providing the services in the ...
HCC participates in TWC training grant consortium
Houston Community College received more than $300,000 as part of a Texas Workforce Commission grant totaling more than $1.2 million to provide training to CHRISTUS Health System Associates. HCC delivers technical training for the IT staff of the CHRISTUS Health Support Center including system managers, software engineers and computer field service technicians. Training is also planned for nurses and administrative staff. HCC is an integral part of this TWC grant, which has been awarded to Lamar Institute of Technology in Beaumont, Texas. A consortium of colleges will provide training to CHRISTUS Health organizations in various regions between May 2011 and July ...
Mayor Parker announces $25 million partnership with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative in Houston
HOUSTON – Mayor Annise Parker today announced that Houston has been selected to join the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative. The initiative, already in place in several other cities, comes with a $25 million commitment to provide loans to help local small businesses. Additional grants will be provided to subsidize business education for current small business owners. “Small businesses play a vital role in job creation for our city’s economy,” said Mayor Parker. “However, due to the lack of a support network, they often struggle more than their larger competitors and lose out on opportunities to grow and create more ...
Corporate College helps Goodman promote from within
HOUSTON, TX [July 24, 2008] – Promoting from within can create both opportunities and challenges for today’s growing companies. Goodman Manufacturing Company, however, found creative ways to meet these unique challenges. Goodman recognized a growing gap in the skills and capabilities of hourly workers who had been promoted to supervisors. The best factory workers often worked their way up the career ladder without much formal education or business experience. Once promoted however, they were faced with a very different set of job demands for which they were sometimes unprepared. Goodman wanted to improve the success rate for these highly skilled and dedicated ...
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HCC Corporate College Receives Grant to Train Employees at Ben E. Keith
HOUSTON (April 4, 2013) – HCC Corporate College is teaming up with Ben E. Keith Foods, the eighth largest institutional foodservice distributor in the nation, to train close 100 distribution workers to work at the food giant’s recently built 475,000-square-foot distribution center in Missouri City, TX. The training was made possible by a $69,000 Texas Workforce [...]
Corporate College-HISD partnership hold first graduation
Dozens of HISD’s plant operators have been working hard this year to improve their skill sets in order to better serve their campuses, and many of them gathered at the district’s Construction and Facilities Services headquarters on Aug. 9 to celebrate their accomplishments. A reception was held for the 120 plant operators who had finished [...]
Corporate College and The Center for Healthcare Professionals Launch Dental AssistantTraining
HOUSTON [June 11, 2012] – To meet the changing needs of the dental industry, Houston Community College’s Coleman College for Health Sciences and Corporate College department are pleased to announce the availability of Dental Assistant Advanced Certification Training. This new training addresses recent changes to the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners that now allows [...]
HCC partners with La Cámara de Empresarios Latinos de Houston
Entrepreneurship skills for Hispanic-owned businesses. HCC Corporate College recently partnered with La Cámara de Empresarios Latinos de Houston (CELH) to bring much needed entrepreneurship skills, presented in Spanish, to Hispanic business owners. The Curso de Capacitacion de Empresarios (Training Program for Business Owners) that was designed for the Camara de Empresarios Latinos provides the small-business owner [...]