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4 <br /> Slide#S <br /> NCCU, UNC-CH & DUKE PARTNERSHIPS <br /> CONTINUING NEW <br /> ✓ NCCU Eagle Connect Transfer. ✓ NCCU Skilled Trades internships. <br /> Improving the Eagle Connect Durham Tech skilled trades students <br /> partnership. working as interns with NCCU <br /> ✓ UNC-Durham Tech Workforce Facilities <br /> Development Working Group. ✓ NCCU Social Work partnerships. <br /> Identifying opportunities for NCCU social work students doing <br /> internships and partnership in area clinical rotation to support students <br /> like clinical trials,medicine,data and Durham Tech counseling office. <br /> science. ✓ NCCU life sciences transfer <br /> ✓ Duke Nursing and Teaching initiative.Clear and broadened <br /> partnerships.Duke provides pathways into NCCU majors that <br /> academic supports and co-teaching align with life sciences. <br /> in select pathways. ✓ Duke Transfer initiative. First <br /> ✓ Durham Early College of Health phase with Pratt School of <br /> Sciences.Duke is providing major Engineering slated for Fall 2026, <br /> in-kind supports and committing to <br /> hire 50-60%of graduates. <br /> durhamtech.edu WFAF"q <br /> Slide#6 <br /> COUNTY-SUPPORTED WORKFORCE INITIATIVES <br /> ■ Back to Work Scholarships <br /> ■ Orange:248 scholarships awarded to date($90,000 out of$100,000) <br /> ■ Small Business Center <br /> • Ramped up services for Spanish speakers and shifted focus from start-ups <br /> to employee retention and growth <br /> • Reached over 1,000 attendees in regional small business events <br /> ■ Apprenticeships <br /> ■ 13 companies with 129 apprentices in areas like health care, advanced <br /> manufacturing, life sciences and early childhood <br /> ■ Working at present to bring on 10 additional registered apprenticeship <br /> employer sponsors <br /> ■ Exploring College Sponsor model as way to increase numbers <br /> durhamtech.edu W. <br />