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Dr. Paul Pierpoint
Dean, Community Education
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The Nation Needs to Educate Manufacturing Workers Now
Almost everyone involved in manufacturing is acutely aware of a double threat looming just on the horizon that stands to undermine our future ability to sustain manufacturing for the future in America. While an amazing fifty percent or more of the nation's skilled manufacturing technicians will be eligible to retire in the next few years, very few young people are enrolling in the kinds of technical training and education programs that would allow them to fill the void.
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Contact Information for New Southside Location
 Fowler Family Southside Center
511 E. Third Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-861-5590
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Alternative Energy - What Does It Mean For Us?
By Michael Vasilik, Ph.D., Director, Electotechnology Applications Center
How many of us have seen our home/auto energy bills increase significantly in the past few years? If yes, raise your hand - all hands should be in the air unless you live in a cave or on a desert island. How many of us believe that these bills will level off or even decrease in the next few years? All hands should be down unless you also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. In this article, I am briefly going to outline the current energy problem and some of the options we may have for the future. Read More...
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Dun & Bradstreet Building Sustainability with Training That Embeds a Winning Culture
With a presence in the Lehigh Valley for many years as one of the top 80 employers in the region, D&B has gone through a period of transformation over the last 6 years, guided by a strategic plan called the Blueprint for Growth. D&B completed a period of restructuring back in 2000 that was designed to make them a smaller, more tightly focused company, by spinning off A.C. Nielsen, Cognizant, Reuben H. Donnelley and Moody's Corporation. This allowed each company to pursue focused, independent strategies for growth and led to the launch of this ambitious plan called the Blueprint for Growth, an evolving strategy designed to transform D&B.
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The Power of Partnership
PA Manufacturers Have a Friend in MRC
The story is pretty worn. Those who have worked in the region for most of their lives know it well. It goes something like this: Great industrial giants that changed the face of America , helped win all the wars and provided European immigrants their first leg-up on the ladder to American prosperity, disappear like the dinosaurs, thus ending the Industrial Age during the final decades of the 20th century.
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Sustainability: Surviving When Others Can't
By Don Robertson
Co-Director, Leadership Development Institute
Recently I heard a presentation by Jim Collins, the author of Good To Great. He had one point he especially wanted people to grasp and act on and I believe that point is one of the most important things that has been said in years. It is simple and straightforward; it carries minimal financial investment; but it calls for strong human commitment. I believe it is the secret to sustainability. Collins simply said, “Greatness is not a function of circumstances. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”
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ETAC Received Significant Grant For Improving Efficiencies in the Commonwealth
The Electrotechnology Applications Center at Northampton Community College received a $200,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to support work in helping manufacturers statewide improve productivity, increase energy efficiency, and achieve and maintain environmental compliance by using alternative technologies to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds and other pollutants.
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Leadership Development Institute Xploring Program
Are you interested in learning about yourself as a leader and how you can use your leadership to take your organization to higher levels of performance? Then you need to join like-minded leaders in the Leadership Development Institute's Xploring Program.
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