CREC’s Ken Poole and Ron Kelly visited Bluegrass Community College and Technical College (BCTC) in Lexington, Kentucky to meet with college staff to determine their workforce and educational data needs as a part of our ongoing work with the Henry Ford College and Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (M-SMAC).
Led by Henry Ford Community College, in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (M-SAMC) – a 13-member consortium of community colleges – have received funding by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (DOL-ETA) to develop a web based application purposed with improving community colleges’ decision making on manufacturing educational program development, investment, and strategic marketing to industry.