Officials from Blue Ridge Community College and Southwestern Community College announced this week that they are launching the Western North Carolina Respiratory Care Consortium, which expands access to respiratory therapy education in the region.
The funding will establish a Project SHIFT (SCC Health-career Initiative For Teens) office, which aims to recruit enough prospective students to maximize the capacity of SCC’s 16 Healthcare career fields.
The Pierce Pumper cost $355,007 and will be used to train firefighters throughout Jackson, Macon, Swain Counties and the Qualla Boundary.
This program allows young men and women (ages 18-30) with disabilities to gain marketable employability skills through classes and hands-on internships, and this year’s graduates made a lot of friends along the way.
Sixty-two Franklin high school students had the opportunity to work with math and science instructors as well as learning assistant consultants at SCC.
Filled with more than 40 pages of original poetry, short stories, artwork and photography, the latest volume features a colorful jellyfish design created by SCC student Lucia French.
