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Northwest State Community College’s Scott Park Location
Filling Skilled Tradesmen Void
By Fletcher Word
Sojourner’s Truth Editor
In March 2016 Northwest
State Community College opened a satellite location at the
University of Toledo’s Scott Park Campus. The Scott Park
location is a manufacturing training center whose purpose is
to replenish the ranks of skilled tradesmen as their numbers
are depleted through retirement, says Director David
Conover.
The new location, a 22,000
square foot facility provides offers three types of training
programs, or buckets. The first bucket trains existing
employees of customers in subjects such as business
computers, hydraulics and automotive production, for
example.
ProMedica uses NSCC for
computer training and NSCC is the sole provider of computer
training for General Mills worldwide.
In the second bucket, NSCC
provides training across a broad spectrum in an
apprenticeship program. And in the third, NSCC brings in
students for 32 weeks or less for certification in such
areas as IT, robotics and industrial automotive maintenance.
The third bucket also includes a pilot program, funded by
United Way, which prepares students for entry level
positions in basic operation for automated plants.
The Scott Park location is
housed in a building that had been put to a variety of
purposes over the years. In recent years, the State of Ohio
cleared the way for the expansion of NSCC and provided a
grant of almost $2 million for renovation of the facility
and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce provided funds of $900,000
for programming.
Northwest State Community
College was founded in 1968 when the Ohio Board of Regents
approved the formation of the Four County Technical
Institute. In 1972 the college moved to its present location
in Archbold, Ohio and was renamed the Northwest Technical
College. Northwest became a community college in 1994 which
enabled students to earn associate of arts and associate of
science degrees.
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