Corporate & Community Education Opportunies

SCC Corporate & Community Education has some good opportunities next week to broaden your knowledge or learn a new job skill.  Our department is dedicated to serving the community by providing classes that fit your schedule with flexible hours and affordable tuition.

Here are just a few of the classes coming up:

• Communication Skills & Techniques – November 18
• Excel 2007, Basic – November 19
• Forklift Training – November 20
• Arrhythmia — Starts November 28
• Defensive Driving – December 1

Our complete class listing is availabe on our web site www.sccsc.edu/cce or you may call us at 864-592-4408 or toll free 877-592-4408.  Our staff will be glad to answer any questions.

Thanks(For)Giving Collection Drives at SCC

Now through December 4th, give whatever you can to support the collection drives around Spartanburg Community College’s campuses! 

There are multiple opportunities to make a difference this season.

• “Can Hunger” drive
• Toy Hoard
• PBJ Drive

More information and collection points.

The Sandwich Generation: Not a Bunch of Baloney!

Is it too much sometimes?  Do you feel overwhelmed?

The P.A.C.E. Center presents a free workshop at SCC.  Tuesday, November 17, at 6:30 pm at Spartanburg Community College, Health Science Bldg, Room 115.  Get some professional advice on doing it all without doing yourself in!

Join presenters, Sheila Welch, RN and Rev. Robert Brozina for this unique opportunity for self-discovery and new skills.

Are you: 

• Caring for elderly parents?
• Caring for young children?
• Holding down a full-time job?
• Trying to be a good spouse?
• Trying to contribute to your community?
• Tending to your own physical & mental well-being?

To register,** call the P.A.C.E. Center at 864-583-5802 or email:  mhapiedmont@bellsouth.net by November 16, 2009. 

**All attendees must register in advance.

Union County Students to Pay Less to Attend Spartanburg Community College

Spartanburg, S.C. – Union County residents will pay $165 less each semester to attend Spartanburg Community College beginning January 2010.  
 
“The decision for the tuition reduction is in conjunction with the opening of the QuickJobs Development Center and the commitment of financial support by Union County,” said Henry Giles, SCC’s executive vice president of business affairs.
 
For SCC’s spring 2010 semester, tuition for Union County students will be reduced to $1,956 per semester for full time students (12 credit hours or more), a savings of $165 per semester and $163 per credit hour for those taking fewer than 12 hours, a savings of $14 per credit hour. Prior to that decision, Union County students attending SCC full time paid the out-of-county tuition rate of $2,121 per semester. Those attending for fewer than 12 credit hours paid $177 per credit hour.
 
The Spartanburg County Commission for Technical and Community Education passed the new tuition structure during the Commission’s September meeting.
 
Registration for the spring semester began November 2 and the new tuition structure is in effect.

Dr. Just on “Your Carolina” November 4 at 10 am

Corporate & Community Education’s own Dr. David Just, VP of CCE, will be featured on WSPA channel 7’s Your Carolina with Jack and Kimberly at 10 am on Wednesday, November 4.  Dr. Just will be talking about the MSSC Program.  That is the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council Production Technician Certificate training.

The training is offered free to unemployed or displaced workers and will help them develop skills for employment by the numerous supplier companies of BMW.  The job market is expected to pick up 1st Quarter of 2010.  Be ready.

 

Visit QuickJobs Development Center in Union

Come visit SCC’s new training center in Union and learn about national certifications in construction and manufacturing.  Employers are looking for employees to fill positions.

When:     November 17, 2009; 10 am or 4 pm

Location:  QuickJobs Development Center
1401 Furman L. Findley Highway
Union, SC  29379

SCC’s Union branch hones skills for in-demand jobs

Spartanburg Herald Journal, October 26, 2009

Finally, some good news for Union County. 

Dr. Just, vice president for corporate & community education, stands in the welding lab in the recently completed QuickJobs Development Center. Officials at the center say welding is a high-demand field.

Spartanburg Community College soon will open its new QuickJobs Development Center in Union, which school and local officials are hoping will evenually curb an unemployment rate in excess of 20 percent there.

The recently completed 14,000 square-foot facility on Highway 176 — an estimated $2.3 million project funded by a grant from the Department of Commerce and a Community Development Block Grant — will house three technical programs:  welding, pipe fitting and Manufacturing Skill Standards Council certification.

Most of the students are recipients of scholarship money from an “individual training account” through Upstate Career Source, which operates under the direction of the Upstate Workforce Investment Board. 

How to enroll:  For more information about enrolling in one of the three technical programs to be held at the new center, call the Corporate & Community Education department at SCC at 592-4900.  For information about qualifying for individual. training account scholarships, call Upstate Career Source at 562-4168. 

Read more about the QuickJobs Development Center.

Open Mic Night

Calling all:

Poets •  Prose Writers  
Creative Nonfiction Writers  • Unplugged Musicians

Everyone Welcome!  Come share your original works!  SCC’s next Open Mic Night is Wednesday, November 18, 2009 from 6 to 7 pm at the Spartanburg Community College Library, Room 205

For information contact: 
Alan Tessaro, 864-592-6205 — tessaroa@sccsc.edu or
Chris Wilkerson, 864-592-4853 — wilkersonc@sccsc.edu.

The Holidays? Already?

Get started now!

SCC is offering some fun and informative holiday classes starting November 5, 2009. 

Christmas Stocking Creations lets you add a special touch to your holiday mantel or give them as gifts. 

Learn piano in just one day?  Instant Christmas Carol Piano Workshop for hopeless busy people lets you discover shortcuts with a bare minimum of tedious note reading.

Just in time for the holidays!  Candy Making - Learn to make candies that look as good as they taste.  Give as gifts or delight your family and friends.

Learn More and register online.

Job Fair for BMW Temporary Positions

Spartanburg Herald Journal
October 14, 2009

MAU Inc. and Tier One Solutions will hold a job fair from 9 am to 4 pm today (Wednesday, October 14, 2009) at the Greenville One Stop office at 706 Pendleton St. to fill temporary positions at BMW Manufacturing Co.

BMW announced Friday the addition of two production shifts at the plant near Greer.  To support these additional shifts, BMW’s contract agencies will hire up to 700 workers.

For job information, visit www.mau.com.  To schedule an interview with a MAU executive, call Brett Yardley at 706-823-2344 or e-mail brett.yardley@mau.com.