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Martin Community College
Training and education are essential to business and industry of any size. Locate your company at the NETBC and benefit from Martin Community College’s special services and courses. The College works through a variety of programs to meet training needs including:

• NEIT (New & Expanding Industry Training)
  Qualified new, expanding, and existing industries can request training through NEIT. In cooperation with the Economic and Workforce Development Division of the NC Community College System, MCC will design and administer these special training programs. NEIT services are state-funded and intended for eligible new industries and/or for industrial expansions that create 12 or more new jobs within a year in a North Carolina community.

• FIT (Focused Industrial Training) 
  Designed to serve the special needs of existing North Carolina manufacturing industries, FIT's focus is on critical skills that change as technology changes. FIT uses individualized needs assessments and consultations to design and implement this customized training targeting skilled and semi-skilled workers, industrial maintenance workers, and leaders of personnel who perform industrial processes. FIT courses may address skills such as machine fixers, statistical process control, welding, CNC machining, industrial maintenance and troubleshooting, blueprint reading and team performance. The state-funded FIT program helps offset the costs associated with providing training. 

• North Carolina Manufacturing Certification Program
  This training program includes courses in teamwork and communications, mathematics and measurements, problem solving, and others custom-designed for each company. Manufacturers may also elect to offer the entire certification program for their workforce.

• Occupational Extension Classes
  Occupational Extensions Classes provides extensive training for business and industry and typically involves both classroom and on-site instruction. Program flexibility allows courses to be tailored to specific group needs.  Examples of classes include Supervisory Training, Programmable Logic Controls, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning, Computer classes and Industrial Maintenance classes.

• MCC Small Business Center
  The Small Business Center offers critical help for small businesses and their employees through seminars, workshops, classes, and one-on-one confidential counseling. The Center is part of a statewide network of experts and professionals actively participating in the economic development of their communities.

• Curriculum Programs
  MCC also offers training in technology-based programs to support area economic needs including Electronic Commerce, Information Systems, Internet Technologies, Office Systems Technology, and Cisco Network courses.
  

For more information about how MCC's workforce training programs can help your business or industry, contact Martin Community College at 252-792-1521 or visit the MCC web site.

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Online Courses and University Programs
Martin Community College, East Carolina University, Elizabeth City State and North Carolina State Universities have online degree courses.  The NCTeleCenter offers you free use of community access computers to take advantage of these programs. (College and University fees apply.) We will schedule computer access around your schedule to ensure that a computer is always available for your training needs.

Priority for scheduling computer access will be given to team members of companies located at the NETBC, encouraging employees to earn degrees and creating a better-trained workforce.

Listings of online courses from each college and university will be listed here in the summer of 2002. Check our Links section to visit these institutions' web sites and learn more about each school's requirements and programs.

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Martin County Apprenticeship Program
Martin County High School students and county business and industry benefit from this award-winning program. The North Carolina Department of Labor Apprenticeship and Training Bureau has recognized the program with nine awards since 1997 including those for Outstanding High School Apprentices, Outstanding Individual Contributing to Apprenticeship, Outstanding Apprenticeship program and Outstanding System. The county received five awards in 2000-01—the most ever received by a county in one year. Business sponsors have increased from two in 1997 to fifty-eight in 2001. The program coordinator has been appointed to serve on the North Carolina Apprenticeship Council by the North Carolina Commissioner of Labor and is the only member of the Council chosen from a school system.

For information about how to participate in the Martin County Apprenticeship Program, e-mail Schools-to-Careers Coordinator Linda Williford or call her at the JobLink Career Center, 252/792-7816.