CASC receives grant, for program with area businesses
Today, Strada Education Network selected Carl Albert State College to receive a grant through Strada’s Employer and Community College Partnership Challenge. Strada awarded this $400,000 grant as part of an effort to support innovative collaborations across the country between community colleges and employers in their region. CASC also will participate with Strada in a community of practice to learn from other select community college-employer partnerships around the country.
Today, Strada Education Network selected Carl Albert State College to receive a grant through Strada’s Employer and Community College Partnership Challenge. Strada awarded this $400,000 grant as part of an effort to support innovative collaborations across the country between community colleges and employers in their region. CASC also will participate with Strada in a community of practice to learn from other select community college-employer partnerships around the country.
This partnership will build on current and establish new working relationships with both local educational and employer partners to increase the number of qualified applicants in rural eastern Oklahoma for positions in health care and child care. The program will integrate with CASC academic programs, as well as the Indian Capital Technology Center and Oklahoma Schools Advisory Council to provide the educational components needed to help fill open positions in both health care and child care for in the area. The program will also collaborate with the Cherokee Nation, City of Sallisaw, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs and Adventure Head Start, evaluating educational needs to prepare and help fill local work force openings. And finally, the program will strengthen pipelines of students from the public schools, CASC, the City of Sallisaw, Indian Capital Technology Center, Cherokee Nation and other, working to support local educational and healthcare needs.
