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Month: February 2018
Grant to help boost minority students’ achievement at PCC, CSU-Pueblo
The Department of Higher Education announced Tuesday campus partnerships that will support minority students at both of Pueblo’s colleges to reach key educational milestones.
Kim Hunter Reed, executive director of CDHE, announced a $500,000 Talent, Innovation and Equity grant before more than 40 business and community leaders from across the state Tuesday at History Colorado in Denver.
The grant was awarded by Lumina Foundation last year and will be used for programs at Colorado State University-Pueblo and Pueblo Community College, as well as Community College of Aurora.
“We are honored to partner with CDHE on an initiative that maps to the goals we have set at Colorado State University-Pueblo. Our faculty and staff at CSU-Pueblo know that academic ability is not limited to a zip code,” said CSU-Pueblo President Timothy Mottet.
PCC President Patty Erjavec said the opportunity to partner with the department and the Lumina Foundation provides PCC with some additional resources and the support to further foster the school’s vision of becoming a TRIO-like college.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for PCC to partner with CDHE and the Lumina Foundation to move forward our vision for student success with our most vulnerable populations. Again, I stress that we have smart, capable students who have so much potential. They simply need our collective support to achieve the unimaginable,” Erjavec said.
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Outdoor recreation is now a federal economic category, and in Colorado and elsewhere, the industry is more than ready to wield it
WASHINGTON — The outdoor recreation industry accounted for an estimated 2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product last year — with $374 billion in economic activity — according to a government report out Wednesday.
“We’ll be able to show that we have government-backed data that talks about the importance of investing in recreation,” said Amy Roberts, executive director of the Boulder-based Outdoor Industry Association.
That comes into play, she added, when policymakers are considering “whether to allow mining or whether to allow energy exploration or whether to set aside an area for recreation.”
“Outdoor recreation is a driving force behind Colorado’s economy, which is why this report is so important,” said [Republican U.S. Sen. Cory] Gardner in a statement. “I look forward to reviewing the findings and know this data will be used by industry leaders and policymakers moving forward.”
Colorado’s aerospace community soars as number of jobs grow
New numbers released by the Colorado Space Coalition reveal there are a total of 26,620 private sector aerospace jobs in our state.
In 2017, jobs grew by 4.7 percent, adding more than 1,000 workers, making Colorado number two in the nation for aerospace-related employment.
“Colorado was the draw. The views, the outdoor activities,” said Angie Wise of Sierra Nevada Corporation. “You have Denver, you have Boulder, there’s so much packed into this area.” The company is developing a spacecraft to take cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
U.S. Economy Added 200,000 Jobs In January; Wages Rose
The U.S. added 200,000 jobs in January, continuing the trend of steady job growth for another month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.
That means the economy has now added jobs for 88 months in a row. Average hourly earnings rose by 9 cents to $26.74, with a year-over-year growth of 2.9 percent — the highest rate of growth the BLS recorded since June 2009.
The rise in employment was driven by the construction industry, restaurants, health care and manufacturing, all sectors that added jobs last month.
Wind-energy generation grows, Colorado 9th
By the end of 2017, U.S. utilities were generating 89,077 megawatts of electricity from wind turbines. Of that, 3,104 MW were generated in Colorado.
Colorado ranks higher as a developer of wind energy technology. The state has 17 manufacturing facilities including the Vestas blade and turbine plants in Northern Colorado, according to the report. Those manufacturing facilities place the state fourth among the states in wind energy employment with between 6,000 and 7,000 jobs either directly or indirectly in the industry.
About 17 percent of the electricity consumed in the state comes from wind power, the report said.