Darton College
Gainsville College
Georgia Perimeter College
West Georgia College
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Winter 2003 Programs & Catalogs From Around the State
| Clayton State | Darton College | Gainsville College | Georgia Perimeter | West Georgia |
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Clayton
State: SmartStart
Success Continues SmartStart is an online job assistance program for recruiting and training junior enlisted service members leaving the military, and moving them into well-paying civilian careers. The program, provided through Clayton College & State University's Division of Continuing Education, was originally funded by a $927,000 U.S. Department of Labor grant in 2001. A second U.S.government grant extended the program through Apr. 30, 2004. SmartStart, provided at no cost to veterans, supports junior enlisted military personnel (grades E-2 to E-5) serving at any U.S. military installation. The SmartStart online program has expanded rapidly to U.S. military installations worldwide from its initial launch in Atlanta in mid-2002. The non-credit training is job-specific and directly related to the skills and education requirements of the program's corporate partners. SmartStart's four most recent placements include three from the U.S. Army - Sgt. Thomas Black and Sgt. Dewey Henderson of Ft. Gordon, Ga., Cpl. Manuel Guzman of Ft. Carson, Co., and U.S. Marine Cpl. Guye Akins of Camp LeJeune, N.C. Jim Zills, manager of the Transition Assistant Program (TAP) at Ft. Gordon, aided the SmartStart program by organizing an on-site testing and interview session with Southern Company. Security positions were offered to each of the four service members in September 2002. Southern Company was recently named one of "America's Most Admired Companies" by Fortune magazine. With nearly four million customers and more than 37,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company is the premier super-regional energy company in the Southeast and a leading U.S. producer of electricity. For more information on Smart Start for New Vets, go to www.smartstartvets.org. |
| Darton
College:
Darton College offers excitement and interest for their customers in such unique programs:
Darton College offers this program for Professional Development: "The Supervisor's Boot Camp" This 16 hour program provides practical tips and techniques for the supervisory success......again great marketing program title!
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| Gainsville
College offers a great Career
Development Institute from everything from A-Z; including such courses
as "Rediscover Your Passion For Work", "Guiding Employees
Through Change", "The Leader's Role in Creating A Quality
Culture".
For personal enhancement, they offer" Making A Living In Art", and for Child Development "What Happened to The World?" and "Who's Watching the Children?" "What Happened to The World?" is a 2 hour program giving parents and caregivers the understanding and tools to help children cope with fear, grief and other feelings brought on by catastrophic events (this is excellent Gainsville!)
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| Georgia
Perimeter College offers "Terrorism
Today", a two seminar program for administrative level first
responders, emergency management personnel, police, fire, and other
municipal personnel. This cutting edge program, "Terrorism
Incident Command Systems" covers such topics as "working
with the media, police information and intelligence, patrol distribution,
vulnerability assessment, recognizing nontraditional threats.
The second seminar is "Call-Taker/Dispatcher Handling Calls of A terrorism Nature" covers criminal laws applicable to terrorist acts, anthrax and biological attacks, bomb response and attacks at a local military facility or federal building. |
| West
Georgia College offers a
great and wide variety of programs-a few are: "All I want to do is
E-Mail", "Video Editing", " Making & Saving Money
on EBay", "Teen Suicide" "Wilderness Search and Rescue
Program" (they also note in the ad that this program was
recognized by GAEA as the 2002 State-Wide Outstanding Innovative
Program---good idea!).
Two great feedback tools are listed in their catalog as well. "Which computer class is right for me", ask the participant 12 questions and then gives and evaluation at the end and helps them select the right computer course! Also, love the evaluation tool on the back page of the catalog, "Tell it like it is!" covering a review of the catalog, courses, web site, and tell us about you. Participants mail or fax in evaluation. Great idea West Georgia! |
| If you want your catalog and programs to be reviewed for the next GAEA newsletter, e-mail Joyce Trivieri: jtrivier@gpc.edu We would love to hear from you! |