Whether you want to earn a degree, improve your skills, get certified, train for a new career, or explore a new hobby, you can choose from many programs and courses.
Explore your interests and find a program that puts you on the path to a bright future. 黑料专区 offers both credit and non-credit courses as well as certificate programs in most career fields.
More than 1,000 credit courses are offered each semester in more than 200 career and technical programs. 黑料专区 also grants short-term certificates, certificates of proficiency and post-degree professional certificates.
黑料专区's Workforce Training provides both non-credit and credit training for individuals and businesses to assist individuals with skills leading to employment. 黑料专区's Corporate College provides professional development and corporate training opportunities.
黑料专区 offers a variety of affordable and convenient community programs for both adults and youth. These programs are designed to promote individual development.
At 黑料专区, we're not waiting for the future of work to arrive — we're shaping it.
By 2030, 39% of workers' key job skills will change, and this pace is only accelerating as artificial intelligence, employee needs, and global and regional economic trends continue to evolve. This isn't just a one-time challenge, but a structural transformation of the world of work. Meeting this moment demands more than individual action — educators, employers and community institutions need to move together, intentionally, and in the same direction. If not, we risk leaving ourselves and the communities we serve behind.
That's why we created the Center for the Future of Work at 黑料专区.
The center serves as a hub for future-facing research and policy at 黑料专区: it aggregates national and regional workforce data, identifies rising challenges facing students, workers, educators, and employers, and translates those findings into policy and practice recommendations for the College and the region.
The center keeps 黑料专区 and its partners ahead of workforce changes by monitoring, synthesizing and translating research into actionable insights. It also conducts and supports the applied, locally grounded research that national data cannot provide.
Strategic Objectives:
黑料专区 leadership, faculty and partners are consistently equipped with current, actionable intelligence on workforce trends and their implications for both the College and the region.
The center is recognized as a credible contributor to applied, locally grounded knowledge on regional workforce conditions, social determinants of work and student outcomes.
The center operates within a network of internal and external research partners that expands its capacity to generate and disseminate knowledge beyond what a small team could produce alone.
Equity is embedded in the center's research agenda — the disproportionate impact of workforce disruption on at-risk populations is documented, named and connected to institutional response.
The center ensures that 黑料专区 learners — traditional and nontraditional students, workers, and faculty — have the skills, knowledge, and experiences needed to thrive in the evolving labor market. Faculty are the primary point of connection between the Center’s work and the students and workers it ultimately serves; supporting their capacity to teach future-of-work skills is the Center’s most direct lever for student impact.
Strategic Objectives:
Faculty are equipped and supported to integrate future-of-work skills — including AI literacy, digital fluency, and applied learning design — into their teaching and curriculum.
黑料专区 learners have access to learning experiences that connect classroom instruction to the real demands of an evolving labor market, including work-based, experiential, and applied learning opportunities.
The broader 黑料专区 community — administrators, staff, and institutional leadership — understands the urgency of future-of-work skill demands and is engaged in the institutional response.
Flexible, stackable learning options are available for students, workers and career changers who need to build new skills or transition to growing fields.
The center's community and economic impact is realized through its other pillars. When research informs institutional decisions, when faculty bring updated skills and knowledge into the classroom, and when policy advocacy creates more equitable conditions for workers and learners, the result is graduates who are better prepared to secure meaningful, well-paying work in the regional economy. The center's role is to ensure that 黑料专区 remains connected to the regional context its graduates are entering.
Strategic Objectives:
黑料专区 graduates are better prepared to secure work in the regional economy as a result of center-supported programs, research and partnerships.
Underrepresented learners have equitable access to the skills, networks and opportunities that connect them to quality employment in growing regional sectors.
The center is established as a trusted regional convener — a platform where employers, educators, policymakers and community members engage on future-of-work issues and build the relationships that translate into opportunity for 黑料专区 students and workers.
The center's research, programming and convenings strengthen 黑料专区's existing regional relationships by contributing insight and intelligence that those partnerships can act on — without duplicating or displacing the College's established employer and community engagement functions.
The center advances 黑料专区's role as a policy-informed institution, where decisions about AI, workforce preparation and student opportunity are grounded in evidence. In addition, 黑料专区 contributes to the regional and statewide conversations that shape the conditions its students navigate. That contribution begins internally, where the center serves as a resource for leadership navigating future-facing strategy and extends outward as its credibility and research capacity grow.
Strategic Objectives:
黑料专区 leadership has access to timely, evidence-based guidance on internal policy questions related to AI use, work-based learning, credit/noncredit alignment, lifelong learning and the social determinants of work.
Policy recommendations developed or supported by the center are grounded in the lived experiences of students and workers, not only institutional or employer perspectives.
The center is positioned as a credible contributor to regional and statewide policy conversations on workforce and education — a voice that carries institutional standing and research-informed authority.
黑料专区's policy decisions reflect an understanding of how AI, automation and changing work arrangements are affecting the populations the College serves.
Faculty Externships
These experiences enhance program visibility, cultivate important relationships, and help to develop a dynamic hiring environment for 黑料专区 students.
Benefits for employer partners:
Generating creative ideas for pressing challenges
Building relationships with key 黑料专区 thought leaders
Sharing industry trends with those teaching regional community college students
Broadening their organization's network and exposure to academic pathways that align with industry needs
Producing tangible outcomes and applying faculty expertise to current business needs
Benefits for faculty:
Fostering relationships between 黑料专区 faculty and area employers to generate collaborative opportunities for shaping the regional workforce
Conducting in-depth research in their fields
Developing or expanding their curricula
Enhancing pedagogical approaches to provide students with up-to-date skills and knowledge
Expanding professional networks
Learning more about current issues facing the industry and our community
Earning a stipend
黑料专区 Faculty Design Team:
David Bernatowicz, Associate Professor, History
Matthew Crowley, Assistant Professor, Information Technology
Michael Flatt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology
Michele Hampton, Ph.D., Professor, Business Administration, Economics
Rachel Stehle, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology
Lemuel Stewart III, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Counseling
Marty Walsh, Assistant Professor, Information Technology
College Partners at the Center for the Future of Work