Welcome Business and Community Members
The College Credit and Careers Network provides high school students with the opportunity to earn college credit while they explore career options and develop skills that will be put to use as they enter the workforce.
We partner with businesses, industry, educators, students and parents in order to help connect education with careers through workplace knowledge and experiences. Business and industry involvement in education is crucial as education reform shapes the future of student learning and global competition shapes our economy.
Benefits of partnership include:
- Help to strengthening links between education and employment
- Strengthen business / community relationships, involvement and communication
- Increase the future pool of qualified job applicants
- Reduce the cost of employee recruitment and training
- Develop new opportunities to forge relationships with future employees and to pass on important historical company knowledge
- Help educators and counselors to understand and communicate the needs of business and industry
How to get connected:
- Participate on program advisory committees
- Give company tours for students and educators
- Arrange job shadow experiences for students and teachers
- Offer internships and mentoring opportunities
- Provide scholarships and incentives for students who are interested in your industry
- Support team-based learning opportunities that connect students to the world of work
- Partner with educators to develop work-based and industry-based school curriculum
- Become an active voice at public meetings where state and local education issues are being discussed
- Send company representatives to high school and college career fairs