News and Events
National Apprenticeship Week
Posted November 2019
National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), now in its fifth year, is a nationwide celebration that gives businesses, communities, and educators the opportunity to showcase their apprenticeship programs and apprentices while providing valuable information to career seekers. NAW 2019 will be held November 11-17, 2019.
Read more...Watch the Making Connections Opening Plenary
Posted November 2019
To open the conference, Center staff gathered experts in public transportation to talk about the increasingly important issue of workforce diversity. Billy Terry, Executive Director of NTI, moderated the panel of public transportation leaders who spoke about ways to meet the needs of a more diverse workforce.
Read more...Center Staff Participates in UCLA Symposium on Transportation and Equity
Posted November 2019
On October 20-22, the Center’s Senior Director for Workforce Education, Pat Greenfield, participated as an invited speaker at the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, “Routes to Opportunity: Connecting Equity and Transportation.” Center Board member Stephanie Wiggins, Chief Executive Officer of Metrolink, chaired the panel, titled “Growing the Workforce to Fuel the Transportation System.”
Read more...Watch the Making Connections Lunch Plenary
Posted November 2019
One of the highlights of Making Connections 2019 was the Lunch Plenary Session. Larry Willis, TTD, moderated the panel of esteemed experts and leaders who spoke about emerging technologies in public transportation and the impacts they have seen and expect to see on the frontline workforce and its training needs.
Read more...Cleveland Pilot Shows There’s More Than One Way to Use Signals Consortium Training Materials
Posted October 2019
In an ideal world, public transportation agencies would have all the inhouse capacity they need to train their entire workforce. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case.
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Making Connections 2019
Posted May 2019
Join industry leaders, experts, and partners from workforce development and education to exchange ideas, share successes and learn about emerging best practices for public transportation and transportation workforce development.
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