Business Leaders Forum Welcoming Insight on Community College

SUSQUEHANNA – The Susquehanna Valley Community Education Project invites local business owners to the upcoming Business Leaders Forum.

The new community college organizers will be hosting an event Friday, June 16 at the Silvermoon Banquet Hall. Local business leaders are invited to attend and share their opinions and insights on what they want in the community college.

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Dr. Carl Jensen explains the reasoning, “Our community college is going to be a bottom up model, and what I mean by that is that we are gonna work in partnership with the business community to develop curriculum, to develop programs, we’re not going come out and say, ‘Okay this is what we’re offering take it or leave it, we’re going say what do you need.’”

He says there  will be a number of different speakers sharing their knowledge and thoughts. The point of this meeting, as Dr. Lenaire Ahlum says, is to incorporate all the information gathered and implement it into a working document.

She says this way, the document will better reflect what the community wants in a community college, “Community college has a real pulse on what the workforce needs are within the region that they are targeted to serve, and so, actually, the same needs exist in our area.”

Dr. Ahlum says that the community college not only offers a higher education option for non-traditional students, but it also acts as the unity of a community, “There are people who want this because it will fill a goal in their lives that they’ve never been able to complete.”

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You can hear more of this interview with Dr. Lenaire Ahlum and Dr. Carl Jensen at wkok.com or wherever you listen to podcasts.