A series of grants is enabling Bristol Community College to offer a host of new green classes, from those teaching electricians how to install solar panels to tweaking engineering curricula to include green technology.
The college is adding clean-technology education to both for-credit and noncredit courses, and both traditional classes and those just created to catch the wave of so-called green-collar jobs.
“We’re developing this from scratch,” said Julia Gold, a director of BCC’s new Green Center, part of the college’s noncredit program, the Center for Workforce and Community Education. “It’s an opportunity to give people a taste of these technologies.”
Most of the new programs won’t begin until the fall semester. The first course, part of the Green Center’s Stepping Stone Program on green jobs training, ended earlier this month. The program focused on residential weatherization, energy auditing and entrepreneurship, among other subjects.
The eight-week program, held in New Bedford, included nine individual [...]

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