A community college is a type of undergraduate higher education institution,generally leading to an associate degree,certificate,or diploma. The term can have different meanings in different countries:many community colleges have an "open enrollment" for students who have graduated from high school. The term usually refers to a higher educational institution that provides workforce education and college transfer academic programs. Some institutions maintain athletic teams and dormitories similar to their university counterparts.
Unisys Corporation is an American multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company founded in 1986 and headquartered in Blue Bell,Pennsylvania. The company provides digital workplace,cloud applications &infrastructure,enterprise computing,business process,AI technology and data analytics services.
A collaboration tool helps people to collaborate. The purpose of a collaboration tool is to support a group of two or more individuals to accomplish a common goal or objective. Collaboration tools can be either of a non-technological nature such as paper,flipcharts,post-it notes or whiteboards. They can also include software tools and applications such as collaborative software.
Staffing is the process of finding the right worker with appropriate qualifications or experience and recruiting them to fill a job position or role. Through this process,organizations acquire,deploy,and retain a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization's effectiveness. In management,staffing is an operation of recruiting the employees by evaluating their skills and knowledge before offering them specific job roles accordingly.
Recruitment is the overall process of identifying,sourcing,screening,shortlisting,and interviewing candidates for jobs within an organization. Recruitment also is the process involved in choosing people for unpaid roles. Managers,human resource generalists,and recruitment specialists may be tasked with carrying out recruitment,but in some cases,public-sector employment,commercial recruitment agencies,or specialist search consultancies such as Executive search in the case of more senior roles,are used to undertake parts of the process. Internet-based recruitment is now widespread,including the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Participatory design is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders in the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable. Participatory design is an approach which is focused on processes and procedures of design and is not a design style. The term is used in a variety of fields e.g. software design,urban design,architecture,landscape architecture,product design,sustainability,graphic design,planning,and health services development as a way of creating environments that are more responsive and appropriate to their inhabitants' and users' cultural,emotional,spiritual and practical needs. It is also one approach to placemaking.
Donald Alan Schön was an American philosopher and professor in urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He developed the concept of reflective practice and contributed to the theory of organizational learning.
The New York University School of Professional Studies,previously known as the New York University School of Continuing Education,is one of the schools and colleges that compose New York University. Founded in 1934,the school offers undergraduate,graduate,and continuing education programs. Its main offices are located at 7 East 12th Street on the University's main campus at Washington Square Park. As of fall 2020,the school has a total enrollment of approximately 3,634 graduate students,2,119 undergraduate students,and 11,000 continuing education students.
Workforce management (WFM) is an institutional process that maximizes performance levels and competency for an organization. The process includes all the activities needed to maintain a productive workforce,such as field service management,human resource management,performance and training management,data collection,recruiting,budgeting,forecasting,scheduling and analytics.
The School of Professional Studies (SPS) is one of the seventeen schools comprising Columbia University. It offers eighteen master's degrees programs,certificate programs,pre-college programs,graduate school preparation,summer courses,postbaccalaureate studies,auditing programs,executive education,and English as a second language programs.
Prevention through design (PtD),also called safety by design usually in Europe,is the concept of applying methods to minimize occupational hazards early in the design process,with an emphasis on optimizing employee health and safety throughout the life cycle of materials and processes. It is a concept and movement that encourages construction or product designers to "design out" health and safety risks during design development. The process also encourages the various stakeholders within a construction project to be collaborative and share the responsibilities of workers' safety evenly. The concept supports the view that along with quality,programme and cost;safety is determined during the design stage. It increases the cost-effectiveness of enhancements to occupational safety and health.
The Koret Foundation is a private foundation based in San Francisco,California. Its mission is to strengthen the Bay Area and support the Jewish community in the U.S. and Israel through grantmaking to organizations involved with education,arts and culture,the Jewish community,and the Bay Area community. The foundation takes an approach of testing new ideas and bringing people and organizations together to help solve societal and systemic problems of common concern.
The Virginia Literacy Foundation (VLF),is an organization whose mission is to reduce adult illiteracy in Virginia by providing funding and technical support to private,volunteer adult literacy organizations that teach low level literacy adults to read and write with one-on-one instruction and tutoring. The VLF was founded by Jeannie Baliles,Virginia's First Lady from 1986 to 1990,and founding director Mark Emblidge,and was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization in 1987. The VLF supports grass roots organizations via challenge grants,direct consultation,and program development training with public partners like The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. The VLF also works in partnership with public institutions,corporations,and private literacy organizations in Virginia to address adult illiteracy in the workplace and to provide family literacy training to teachers and parents. The VLF is governed by the founding executive director,Mark E. Emblidge,and a board of directors chaired by Jeannie Baliles.
RapidSMS is a web framework based on the Django web framework which extends the logic and capabilities of Django to communicate with SMS messages. Initial development was done by UNICEF's Innovation Unit for use in mobile data collection and polls. A side effect of the work was pygsm,a Python library for interacting with GSM modems,including cell phones which handle the Hayes command set. The software has been deployed in numerous countries,including Senegal,Mauritania,Uganda,Somalia,Zambia,Kenya,Nigeria,Malawi,and Ethiopia.
The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC),established in 1982,is a non-profit organization working with clean energy. It is based in Latham,New York.
Paul Kim is currently a Korean-American Chief Technology Officer and Associate Dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and has held this position since 2001.
The Jean E. Coleman Library Outreach Lecture presented at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) is tribute to the work of Jean E. Coleman to ensure that all citizens,particularly Native Americans and adult learners,have access to quality library services. Dr. Coleman directed the ALA,Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS) which served the Association by identifying and promoting library services that support equitable access to the knowledge and information stored in our libraries. OLOS focused attention on services that are inclusive of traditionally underserved populations,including new and non-readers,people geographically isolated,people with disabilities,rural and urban poor people,and people generally discriminated against based on race,ethnicity,sexual orientation,gender identification,age,language and social class. The Jean E. Coleman lecture is now sponsored by the Office for Diversity,Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLOS).
Manitoba Advanced Education and Training is the department of the Government of Manitoba responsible for supporting adult learning,post-secondary education,and vocational training in Manitoba.
UKG is an American multinational technology company with dual headquarters in Lowell,Massachusetts,and Weston,Florida. It provides workforce management and human resource management services.
The DO-IT Center is based at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle,Washington. Founded in 1992,DO-IT’s mission is to increase the successful participation of people with disabilities in postsecondary education and careers,in STEM fields and careers,and in computing fields and careers throughout the U.S. It directs the national AccessSTEM program,and co-directs the national AccessComputing Alliance focused on engaging people with disabilities in computing fields.
