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Regional colleges outline stepped-up workforce training, housing and apprenticeship plans for North County
Summary
Representatives from Cal State San Marcos, MiraCosta College and MiraCosta's Technology Career Institute described program expansions, recent grants (including two $10 million gifts reported by CSUSM), apprenticeship and internship funds, and housing projects designed to retain local talent.
Three higher-education leaders told the subcommittee they are expanding programs and partnerships to meet regional workforce needs and to keep students in North County.
Patricia Bridal, chief of community engagement at Cal State San Marcos, said CSUSM is growing nursing, public health, social work, cybersecurity and wildfire-science programs and is working on an integrated sciences and engineering building that CSUSM projects will increase engineering majors from about 300 to as many as 2,000 when fully built out. Bridal said CSUSM received two $10,000,000 gifts recently and a $91,000,000 state award to build new affordable housing that broke ground in December. She described a…
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