If you want to see what a retired banker, a beautician, a dentist, and a life coach have in common, visit a Continuing Education choral group rehearsal and watch each find their place as a soprano, alto, tenor or bass, and sing their heart out.

Continuing Education began a new program in January that will help train San Diegans in green technology. President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helped fund California’s Clean Energy Workforce Training Program. It is through this effort that Continuing Education is able to offer the new green building training in the STAR Center (Sustainable Training and Resource Center) at the Educational Cultural Complex. 

Fifteen delegates from the Singapore WDA (Workforce Development Agency) toured Continuing Education classes in January to learn about an innovative teaching approach that integrates basic skills, including ESL (English as a Second Language), with job-specific training.

Whether it’s a “friend in the business” who gives you good advice, or a VIP pass to the front of the line, having an advantage just feels good, and students at Continuing Education are learning this first-hand.

In addition to the budget buzz and media attention around student completion rates, many people in our nation are having a very important conversation about the low percentage of students who are “college-ready” when they enter college. College readiness is having the ability to complete college-level work. However, in the US, only 32% of students who enter college have the basic skills (e.g. reading, writing, and math) to succeed.

Creating Success with Community Partners
The Technology and Aging Coalition is a group of members from agencies supporting community service for older adults, education, and technology. San Diego Continuing Education represents the educational agency on the coalition.

California has aggressive energy consumption reduction goals and efforts to incentivize homeowners to make their homes more efficient.

Over the next three years, the San Diego Workforce Partnership forecasts the region's need for automotive service technicians and mechanics to grow by 8 percent. This makes sense when you stop and think that the Department of Motor Vehicles estimates there are over 10 million cars registered in Southern California.

The San Diego Community College District has a strong reputation and 20+ years of experience in providing employer-sponsored training and education in San Diego through the Employee Training Institute (ETi). Now ETi and the District can expand to include national and international workforce solutions through active membership in the Global Corporate College (GCC) network.

San Diego Continuing Education’s (SDCE’s) history begins in 1914—the year adult education began inside classrooms at San Diego High School on Twelfth and Russ Streets downtown San Diego. 

It’s digital learning day in Trenton Watkins’ classroom, where 28 students are studying math to help them prepare for the GED exam. “Students are learning about online resources and instructor blogs,” said Dean Lorie Crosby Howell. “It’s a day to focus on technology in the classroom.”

In California, both community colleges and K-12 school districts can provide adult education. Over the years, colleges and school districts have collaborated and partnered to divide adult education responsibilities and serve communities based on need. 

A cylinder in a car is where the fuel burns and creates energy, and a crankshaft is the rotating axle in the engine that carries power from the pistons to the gearbox.

Success is in the air at the new Cesar E. Chavez Campus in Barrio Logan that opened for classes in September. The expanded learning environments and hands-on lab areas are already seeing record numbers of students—especially students in the Healthcare Careers classrooms. Healthcare has been one of the few industries that has experienced strong employment growth over the past three to four years.

San Diego Continuing Education or San Diego Community College District(ETi) is providing a series of customized training classes to the Port of San Diego through a new contract relationship with the Employee Training Institute (ETi). ETi provides customized workforce training to businesses and organizations in San Diego through individual contracts based on business needs.

San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) is expanding services to opportunity youth in San Diego through the new San Diego Gateway to College and Career program at SDCE.

SDCE Leads the Way for Growth and Expansion of Noncredit Programs in California

“Building partnerships makes communities stronger,” said Maureen Rubalcaba, Dean of Student Equity at San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) as she explained SDCE’s newest partnership with the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA).