NEWBURGH – SUNY Orange President Dr. Kristine Young is talking up the
college’s strategic workforce development and entrepreneurial initiatives at the
Newburgh campus with an eye toward offering credit and non-credit courses to
support the growing workforce pipeline in the county and across the region.
Young’s two-phase plan includes a hospitality, food and beverage program
and growing the school’s healthcare and nursing program. “We will design non-credit short-term learning experiences, but we will always have in the back of our head how did this ladder to a degree in the future; how does this ladder to a bigger credential. So it is going to be development a lot on the non-credit side, but with an eye toward laddering it to existing or future credit programs,” Dr. Young said.
The college president brought the regional directors from Senator’s Schumer and
Gillibrand and Congressman Maloney to the Newburgh campus on Wednesday to
outline the vision and potential of the college’s newly minted “Workforce
Innovation SUNY Orange” agenda.
