Partnerships make industry, communities stronger

Front Range offers training to alleviate shortage

The Community and Workplace Development office at Front Range Community College˜s Larimer Campus displays a plaque from Advanced Energy Industries Inc.
The plaque says thanks.
Advanced Energy, the Colorado Business of the Year in 1996, gave FRCC the plaque in gratitude for the partnership forged between the company and the college. The partnership took the form of customized training, funded through a grant from the Colorado Existing Industries Training Project.
In October 1996, an executive from IBM Corp. came to the Larimer Campus with a request: Train people in computer network systems administration and…