CVCC annually introduces more than 24,000 K-12 students from our service area (25 communities that comprise eight school districts) to career opportunities in health care, technology, business, transportation, construction, manufacturing, public safety, human services and other career fields.
All CVCC and associate district students receive the benefit of CVCC Career Development activities, such as career portfolios, job shadowing, mock interviewing, as well as job placement, internships and career coaching.
Annually, many CVCC seniors are awarded scholarships to attend college and earn college credit toward an Associate Degree while at CVCC; in 2011, 224 students were eligible to receive college credit via the Ohio Tech Prep initiative, and more than $60,000 in scholarship money was awarded to CVCC seniors.
When you view your ballot for the Tuesday, November 8 election, you may see not only CVCC’s renewal issue (Issue #8 in Cuyahoga County & Issue #22 in Summit County) on the ballot, but also an issue for your local school district.
Millage is not transferable between our associate school districts and CVCC. Passage of the CVCC 1 mill renewal will not increase or decrease the tax dollars received by any of CVCC’s associate districts. Likewise, passage of millage in the other school districts does not generate additional tax dollars for CVCC.
Since 1982, the 25 communities that CVCC serves have renewed 1 mill of support to provide quality career training programs to high school students and adults.
This 1 mill levy generates 6.18 million dollars across 8 school districts and 25 communities and accounts for a little over 41% of CVCC’s operating budget.
CVCC offers access to career training for people with special needs who want to be productive members of the workforce.
CVCC was recently ranked #1 out of the 91 Career-Technical Planning Districts (CTPD’s) in Ohio, according to the Ohio Career-Technical Education 2009-2010 Secondary CTPD Workforce Development Performance Reports.
Based on 2010 follow-up data, 96% of our high school graduates go to work, or college, or both, and 93.8% of adults go to work.
CVCC provides a variety of discounted services to our communities, such as lunches at the student-run restaurant, salon services, special event facilities and others.
CVCC Adult Education is accredited by the North Central Association (NCA) Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement, an accreditation division of AdvancED®.
In the past five years, CVCC Adult Education trained 343 practical nurses, and hundreds of EMT’s, EKG technicians, STNA’s, medical assistants, dental assistants and phlebotomists for a total of 1,312 healthcare providers in the Northeast Ohio workforce.
CVCC provided more than 70 Northeast Ohio companies with customized training over the past five years. This training provides employers with a skilled workforce to meet current, ever-evolving, industry demands.
Over the past three years, CVCC has provided free, monthly, employment training workshops for 1,030 Northeast Ohio job seekers and free CVCC Adult Health Careers Expos for 602 adults.
CVCC Adult Education worked in conjunction with Microsoft Corporation to offer the “Elevate America” program, which provided free training and certification to help adult Ohio residents acquire or upgrade their technology skills to a minimum level to meet the standards needed for employment, serving 555 people in the greater Cleveland area.
CVCC was recently named a 2011 “Top Workplace” in Northeast Ohio as ranked by WorkplaceDynamics and published in The Plain Dealer. CVCC ranked #12 out of 44 mid-size companies on the list, and was one of a total of 132 small, mid-size and large companies that were named.
