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CBIA News Workforce Development archives

July/August 2008

• Career expo a hit with Connecticut youth, manufacturers (Members only)
• New degree: A.S. in finance, insurance (Members only)

June 2008

• Teens trade vacation for workforce training (Members only)

May 2008

• Nine schools chosen for Project Opening Doors
• Connecticut bioscience gets a boost (Members only)
• Four more Vanguard Schools recognized for outstanding performance (Members only)

April 2008

• Connecticut’s skilled worker shortage hampering business growth
• Will you have the workforce you need?

March 2008

• Employees finishing ‘Lean 101’ (Members only)
• Job fair helps airport-area businesses recruit new talent (Members only)

February 2008

• CBIA helping create engineering/green technology school at Hartford High (Members only)
• DOL proposes rule to align apprenticeship with 21st-century economy (Members only)

January 2008

• For Connecticut manufacturers, continuous improvement = continuous education (Members only)

December 2007

• CBIA helping workforce retrain, manufacturers retool (Members only)

November 2007

• Showing Connecticut students the door ... to success (Members only)

October 2007

• Survey sheds light on manufacturers’ ‘labor pains’ (Members only)
• Next generation, next steps (Members only)

September 2007

• Recruitment faster, more efficient thanks to prescreening service (Members only)
• Manufacturers: Join our speakers’ bureau (Members only)

July/August 2007

• CBIA helping community colleges create manufacturing certificate program (Members only)
• Schools get ‘Manufacture Your Future’ kit (Members only

June 2007

• Tech high school students forego spring break for ‘Engineering Challenge’ (Members only)
• CBIA, Pfizer helping 24 more science students gain pharmaceutical research
  skills (Members only)

May 2007

• Educators, students see advanced manufacturing in action (Members only)
• State still offering funding for aerospace, defense suppliers’ ‘lean’ projects (Members only)

April 2007

• Nearly 70% of grads from Connecticut public colleges working in state (Members only)
• Connecticut both leads and lags on education (Members only)

March 2007

• Manufacturers finding, inspiring future workers, student by student (Members only)

February 2007

• Where to get help with machinist training (Members only)

December 2006

• Some schools showing great success (Members only)
• CBIA has new manufacturing job training grant (Members only)
• New grant to prepare students for manufacturing careers (Members only)

November 2006

• New Technical High School Foundation seeking business support (Members only)

October 2006

• Inspiring, training future CNC machinists (Members only)
• Additional funding for worker training (Members only)
• CBIA-CCSU fellowships helping students gain bioscience, biotech research skills (Members only)

September 2006

• State’s insurance and financial services industry creating ‘IFS University’ (Members only)
• Fewer young college-educated workers predicted in New England (Members only)
• CBIA to help more teens better prepare for college (Members only)
• Manufacturing careers expo:Keeping students enthused (Members only)
• CBIA/Pfizer fellowships help science graduates stay in state (Members only)

July/August 2006

• DOL, employers identify core skills needed in advanced manufacturing (Members only)

June 2006

• CCSU to offer mechanical engineering (Members only)

May 2006

• CBIA announces new course in quality assurance for bioscience manufacturing (Members only)

April 2006

• Many parents, kids see no crisis in math, science education (Members only)
• ‘STEM’-ing students’ math, tech achievement gaps (Members only)
• Manufacturers can make the ‘M.O.S.T.’ of machine operator training program (Members only)

March 2006

• Hire apprentices to ‘grow’ skilled workers (Members only)
• Trumpf creates laser service apprenticeship program (Members only)
• Want job-ready summer workers? Say ‘YES’! (Members only)

February 2006

• State manufacturers can’t fill job openings
• CBIA creates manufacturing careers DVD (Members only)
• Your help wanted for ‘Manufacture Your Future: Careers Expo’ (Members only)
• Preparing students for high-skill, high-demand pharmaceutical jobs (Members only)

January 2006

• ‘Vanguard’ schools lead the way to educational excellence (Members only)

October 2005

• Tech teachers gain hands-on experience in manufacturing and other industries (Members only)
• Grants available to train current workers (Members only)

September 2005

• CBIA helped students this summer prepare for tougher classes this fall (Members only)

June 2005

• CBIA announces program to help Connecticut bioscience companies
• Companies donate $15,000 to Danbury ‘Scholars’ program

April 2005

• CBIA, Pfizer launch research fellowship program (Members only)
• Helping educators recruit more women and girls to study for technology careers (Members only)
• Study finds high school graduation rates affect economic growth (Members only)

March 2005

• CBIA promoting ‘next generation’ manufacturing careers (Members only)
• Members honored for mentoring; more mentors needed (Members only)
• Business support sought for state's tech high schools (Members only)

February 2005

• Manufacturing survey shows skills shortages now, ongoing need for skilled workers here (Members only)
• Machining program needs internships for trainees, jobs for grads (Members only)

December 2004

• New ‘center’ to prepare technical workers for next-generation manufacturing (Members only)
• Expect more ‘tech’ at state’s tech high schools (Members only)
• Employees pursue master’s with grant aid (Members only)

November 2004

• Writing skills essential for employment (Members only)
• Labor Department launches Career Express (Members only)

October 2004

• CBIA to provide employer services in 37 towns (Members only)
• Summer ‘scholars’ earn success (Members only)

September 2004

• CBIA creates Web site for state educators

July/August 2004

• Sharpening Connecticut’s competitive edge: its workforce (cover story)
• CBIA Education Foundation: 20 years helping to create a competitive workforce

June 2004

• Company/college/CBIA training program pays off (Members only)

May 2004

• CBIA helping bioscience, pharma firms ‘home grow’ more science professionals (Members only)

April 2004

• Expo aims to wow educators, students about workplace technologies (Members only)
• CBIA training business volunteers to inspire ‘State Scholars’ (Members only)

March 2004

• CBIA, businesses introducing more teachers to workplace technologies (Members only)
• CBIA wins $3 million grant for tech training (Members only)

February 2004

• Hundreds trained through CBIA/DOL grant (Members only)
• Find training services and resources easily on CBIA’s Web site (Members only)

January 2004

• Solving problem of scarce manufacturing skills (Members only)
• Teens to see value of taking challenging high school courses (Members only)

November 2003

• CBIA to offer free emergency response training (Members only)
• NSF grant lets teachers see technology at work (Members only)
• Business volunteers needed to talk to ‘state scholars’ (Members only)

October 2003

• CBIA clueing educators in to investigative technology in the workplace (Members only)
• Wanted: Math-proficient business volunteers to help Hartford K–8 schools (Members only)

September 2003

• Staff training ‘absolutely’ pays off for U.S. Button (Members only)
• Education Foundation director invited to White House for No Child Left Behind event (Members only)

July/August 2003

• Innovative program aims to shorten learning curve for new IT workers (Members only)

June 2003

• CBIA helping state launch ‘vanguard schools’ effort to improve urban schools (Members only)

May 2003

• CBIA hopes you will say ‘YES’ to hiring these teens for the summer! (Members only)
• Want more productive, promotable workers? (Members only)

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