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Roadtrip Nation Visits Altierus

This October, our Houston campus hosted Roadtrip Nation on their screening tour of their documentary film, One Step Closer.

One Step Closer follows roadtrippers Melanie, Armand, and Becca across America as they listen to personal stories about how community college shaped the careers of working professionals. Roadtrippers engage in honest dialogue with all kinds of professionals and asked honest questions about their struggles as well as their successes.

We’re excited to continue the conversation about postsecondary education and how Altierus Career College is providing options in career technical education.

The GO! Program Makes a Powerful Impact

Each year, Altierus Career College partners with our affiliate, the ECMC Foundation, to award financial grants to community organizations that help make a tangible difference in people’s lives. For 2018, the Foundation has committed $1.39 million to 92 education-related organizations across 19 states. Recipients include Girls Empowered Mentally for Success in Tampa and The Learning Collection Foundation Corp in Atlanta.

At our Houston campus in late June, grant recipients included the Children’s Museum of Houston, Horizon Outreach, and The Forge For Families. These groups and more were awarded checks by ECMC faculty and staff.

Collaborating to Close the HVAC Skills Gap in Atlanta

We started some great conversations this December with key industry partners about closing the HVAC skills gap in Atlanta. Earlier this month, Altierus Career College in Norcross hosted local HVAC businesses to talk about how to create awareness for career technical education (CTE) and train the next generation of HVAC workers.

In addition to local HVAC servicers, we also met with Tim Elliott, CTE program specialist with Georgia’s Department of Education. Tim was very excited to learn more about us and wants to be a partner in working with high schools to create awareness of CTE. Attendees also took a tour of the HVAC labs, currently under renovation — made possible by the ECMC Foundation.

Students Advance to HOSA International Leadership Conference

This past March, 12 medical assisting students from the Norcross Altierus campus in Atlanta competed against 4,000 other students from 84 different schools in the region. Betty Wilkins, a Medical Assisting instructor for Altierus, applied for and received a Campaign for Innovation grant from the ECMC Foundation. The grant paid for HOSA membership fees, student uniforms, travel, and other expenses.

Students participated in competitions which tested their healthcare knowledge and skills. Five of those students placed in their respective events and are now eligible to advance to the International Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida in June.