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Community colleges groom Arizona's bioscience workforce
Kate L. Petersen, the Flinn Foundation

10/26/2004

Summary:

Since the fall of 2003, when educators and bioscience industry leaders completed the Arizona Bioscience Workforce Strategy, community and technical colleges around the state have been developing new programs and innovative ways to train more workers to meet the needs of Arizona's growing biosciences sector.

In the fall of 2003, Arizona educators and government leaders were handed a daunting missive through the Arizona Bioscience Workforce Development assessment: to go forth and train lab techs.

The report, drawn up by the Columbus-based Battelle Memorial Institute and commissioned by a range of educational, nonprofit, and government institutions across the state, found that Arizona, while pursuing a promising industry in the biosciences, was not currently capable of generating the workforce needed to support that growing industry.

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