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2012 Bellwether Award for Workforce Development (L-R)Rob Clancey, President Elect, National Council for Continuing Education and Training, Director, Corporate College, Polk State College; Aili Arisco, STRIDE Program career specialist; Catherine Menounos, STRIDE Program job developer; Julie Scrapchansky, STRIDE Program director; Andrew Clark, director of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at Central Connecticut State University; Dr. Ross Tomlin, president, QVCC; Dale F. Campbell, Professor and Director, Community College Leadership Consortium, University of Florida. Missing from photo: Dr. Patrick Hynes,director the Best Practice Unit for the CT Department of Correction and Susan Menefee, STRIDE Program graduate. Courtesy photo.
DANIELSON --- Quinebaug Valley Community College’s STRIDE Program was selected as the winner of the 2012 National Bellwether Award in the Workforce Development category at the Community College Futures Assembly in Orlando, Fla., Jan. 31.
The Bellwether Award was established in 1995 and is a prestigious award given to colleges with innovative programs in the categories of Instructional Programs & Services; Planning, Governance & Finance; and Workforce Development. The STRIDE Program was a finalist for the Bellwether Award in 2007.
A team presentation called “Breaking Down the Walls: A Pathway to the American Dream”, was presented by Dr. Ross Tomlin, president of Quinebaug Valley Community College; Dr. Patrick Hynes, director of the Best Practices Unit for the CT Department of Correction; Andrew Clark, director of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at Central Connecticut State University; Aili Arisco, STRIDE program career specialist; Catherine Menounos, STRIDE program job developer; Julie Scrapchansky, STRIDE program director and a STRIDE graduate who shared her journey through incarceration and recovery. Lewis Robinson, chairman of the State of CT Board of Regents for Higher Education was in attendance for the presentation.
The Community College Futures Assembly, now in its 18th year, convenes annually as an independent national policy forum for key opinion leaders to work as a “think tank” in identifying critical issues facing the future of community colleges, and to recognize Bellwether Finalist colleges as trend-setting institutions.