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NCTC, Tarrant County College collaborate on grant
From staff reports
Representatives from North Central Texas College, along with Tarrant County College, were on hand at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth Monday for a special grant presentation that will help GE Manufacturing Solutions hire and train workers.
Andres Alcantar, the chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, presented a check for $744,845 to TCC and NCTC that will allow the two community colleges to train GE employees at their new mining equipment and locomotive manufacturing facilities in north Fort Worth.
“There is a strong demand for individuals with different skill sets,” Alcantar told the audience. “At the heart of making sure that our companies have what they need are our community college systems across the state. Thank you to Tarrant County College and North Central Texas College for being associated with this grant. We really value what you do in aligning with the needs of our current employers, but also making sure that we are anticipating and responding to those we are inviting to come into the state.”
GE will bus the trainees to and from Gainesville each day. Each worker will receive 160 hours of training from NCTC instructors in welding, blueprint, match, safety, electrical and metallurgy.
Erma Johnson Hadley, the chancellor of Tarrant County College, encouraged Alcantar to share success stories like this one with his colleagues in the state capitol.
“You are in Austin, so I need your help. With this grant, 275 people in North Texas will either get new jobs or an upgrade to a better job,” she said. “I need your help, and everyone else in Austin, to get the legislature to put hash marks by Tarrant County College’s name and North Central Texas College’s name as being success stories, completions, and things for which we should be getting credit.”
Hadley also noted that this grant will not only benefit GE and their new employees, it could also provide a long-term benefit for the two schools.
“Some of these students that come out of this program, I guarantee you will come back to Tarrant County College and North Central Texas College and get Associate’s degrees because they will be so pumped up from getting all that money they are going to get paid at GE that they will have the wherewithal to support their families and go on and continue their education,” she said.
NCTC Vice President of Institutional Advancement Debbie Sharp thanked GE and the Texas Workforce Commission, as well as her colleagues at TCC, for making this grant a reality.
“I want to say how much we enjoy this partnership and working with your staff,” she told Hadley. “We especially thank GE and the work you are doing to include North Central Texas College by going to Gainesville and using our welding lab there.”
The training will begin in just a few weeks and conclude in April.
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