READ THIS! NJ Pathways Monthly Newsletter (Octiber 2024)

NJ Pathways Projects Highlights

These Pathways Projects are aligning education to build an innovative workforce, and this section highlights the incredible progress of these projects as they change the workforce landscape and meet the needs of key industries in New Jersey.

NJ Cyber Pathways to Cloud Computing

Center of Workforce Innovation for Data & Computer Science

The NJ Cyber Pathways to Cloud Computing Pathways Project included three NJ Community Colleges (Ocean County College, Raritan Valley Community College, and Rowan College at Burlington County). Those three Community Colleges developed two cybersecurity certificate programs using three instructional...

Mechatronics Repair & Maintenance of Industrial Equipment Center of Workforce Innovation for Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management

The Mechatronics Repair and Maintenace of Industrial Equipment Pathway (developed by Raritan Valley Community College and Salem Community College) prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to repair and maintain industrial machinery and equipment such as cranes, pumps, engines and motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems...

NJ Community College Pathway Happenings

Witness the results of the NJ Pathway initiative in real time. NJ’s Community Colleges are hosting NJ Pathways fueled events, convenings, competitions, speaking engagements, and other notable happenings across New Jersey — and this is the place to get the scoop!

Sponsored by Attentive Energy Two: Over 50 NJ Community College Students and Faculty Attend Offshore WINDPOWER Conference 2024 in Atlantic City

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The NJ Council of County Colleges (NJCCC), in partnership with Attentive Energy Two (an offshore wind project developing clean energy opportunities for NJ), welcomed over 50 attendees from NJ’s Community Colleges...

NJ Pathways Student Spotlight

Our NJ Pathways Student & Alumni Spotlights feature the remarkable journeys and triumphs of the diverse student body of NJ’s Community Colleges that participate in NJ Pathways programs. Celebrating their achievements, aspirations, and the unique paths they tread towards success, these narratives illuminate the resilience, passion, and drive that define our community.

UCNJ Produces Highly Qualified and Industry Preferred Certified Clinical Medical Assistant UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ

Cameron Fuentes embarked on her journey in the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant program at UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ in September of 2023. The college has enhanced its health services related programs with...

About the NJ Pathways Initiative

New Jersey’s Community Colleges and the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA) partnered to launch this unprecedented education and training pathways initiative for strengthening the state’s workforce for residents, businesses, and the economy for years to come.

With the New Jersey Pathways to Career Opportunities Initiative (NJ Pathways), NJ joins leading states that are transforming their statewide education and workforce development resources to better and more equitably serve students and workers. This transformation includes an intentional commitment to shared goals across the ecosystem of high schools, colleges and universities, employers, labor unions, nonprofits, the public workforce system, and others.

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