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New training center a 'baited hook' for industry: Choctaws, East Central Community College join forces.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: New training center a 'baited hook' for industry: Choctaws, East Central Community College join forces.(Manufacturing)

Article Excerpt
One of the state's largest private employers, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, has combined forces with East Central Community College (ECCC) to open the Integrated Technologies Training Center (ITTC) at the Mississippi Choctaw Advanced TechParc located on 150 acres of land 35 miles from Meridian.

The training center is designed to provide workers with training to prepare them for high-tech, high-wage employment.

"The college's training center being located in the middle of the technology park is a baited hook for recruiting," said Roger Whitlock, director of workforce development at ECCC. "The Choctaws have attracted a couple of industries to the Advanced TechParc because there was the ability onsite to select and develop productive workers. The college and tribe have done a good thing in terms of luring jobs and employers...

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