Diverse: Issues in Higher Ed spotlights FSCJ program training unemployed for Environmental jobs

Florida State College at Jacksonville's Environmental Workforce and Job Training Development program has been recognized as among the EPA's most successful, recently winning a third grant for continuation of the program. That recognition led Reporter Pearl Stewart to contact FSCJ to spotlight in her article Higher Ed Institutions Help Train Unemployed for Environmental Jobs, about this latest round of EPA grants, published in the July 30, 2013 issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Program Coordinator Sarah Ashbrook, a graduate of the program, and Grant Manager Pamela Scherer talked with Stewart to tell her about how the program works at FSCJ and how it has become the star program that it has. One clarification: the article states that 170 people have been trained by the program since 2009. The 170 figure relates to the results from the first grant. Another 80 students were trained under the second grant, making the total figure 250. The newly awarded grant has provisions for training another 60.

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