CCSNH Featured on WMUR's NH's Business

New Hampshire is facing a projected shortage of more than 1,300 nurses by 2030. CCSNH Vice Chancellor Chuck Lloyd, and Kimberly Perrotta, director of Nursing & Allied Health at Manchester Community College joined Fred Kocher on WMUR's NH's Business to talk about the challenge and how CCSNH's record-breaking class of 347 nursing graduates this spring is helping to close the gap.

From Automotive to the State House: A Career's Unexpected Turn

Most 18-year-olds don’t know what they want to do with their lives. But the expectation is often there the moment they receive their high school diploma.

Caleb Labbe had an interest in cars, so he enrolled in Manchester Community College’s (MCC's) Automotive Technology program. Now at 24, he’s the Communications Director for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, working directly for the Speaker of the House. Cars to politics – his journey is as unpredictable as the campaigns he’d one day help run.

When he thinks back on MCC, Caleb fondly describes the community: the friendships he still has today, the sense of being “in it together” with his peers and faculty and staff who were genuinely invested in seeing students succeed.

“The school gave you opportunities to succeed. They were very much involved, and they genuinely wanted to see you get there.”

CCSNH's ApprenticeshipNH Forges Partnership with Rotobec

A new Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) has arrived in New Hampshire’s North Country to help advance responsible forestry in the region and support critical workforce needs. The partnership between ApprenticeshipNH, a workforce training program of CCSNH, Lakes Region Community College (LRCC), White Mountains Community College (WMCC) and Rotobec USA Inc., a heavy equipment manufacturer specializing in the forestry, scrap recycling, waste management, rail, and industrial markets, has established a new North Country RAP. 

The multi-partner collaboration includes 324 hours of technical instruction for participants delivered across Rotobec internal training, and WMCC and LRCC programming, with approximately two years of on-the-job training. The curriculum will include AC/DC electrical theory, fluid power systems, forklift operation, OSHA 30 certification and crane operation, among other necessary factory floor soft skills. 

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NCC Grad Volunteering as Trauma Nurse in Ukraine

Matthew Ives earned his nursing degree from Nashua Community College. Today, he's in Ukraine, volunteering as a trauma nurse with Frontline Medics, treating injured soldiers and civilians and teaching them to manage shrapnel wounds, burns, and chemical agents in one the world's most active conflict zones. This is his second time going. He said he was inspired by the Ukrainian spirit to do his part to help.