Southern California’s Aerospace Valley, a region best known for building aerospace vehicles, is also a significant and rapidly growing force in building the skills of the builders.
Even as the state’s technical industries entered a third year of skilled workforce shortages, lights are on, doors open and classrooms and workshops humming at Antelope Valley Community College, the pipeline between technology employers and people qualified and certified to do the work.
This is not another “gee-whiz report about a miraculous crash program.” It’s just local history with some national implications from high-level state and federal recognition of successful innovation arising from a community college. Read more…
