Monday, April 03, 2000
Program to draw viewers to workplace
BY JENNY CALLISON
Enquirer Contributor
MIDDLETOWN — It's a classroom-media marriage aimed at helping local employers.
Officials at Miami University-Middletown have announced that the campus has joined with Miami University-Hamilton and three area cable systems to bring work-force preparation into Butler, Warren and Hamilton county homes.
All three systems will broadcast “Workplace Essential Skills,” a series of 24 half-hour programs that teach basic communications and math skills and show viewers how to apply for a job.
For employers seeking workers in a tight labor market, that's news worth celebrating.
The series, produced by Public Broadcasting System's (PBS) LiteracyLink project, is already available to TVMiddletown viewers. TVHamilton and the Intercommunity Cable Regulatory Commission (ICRC) will begin airing the programs soon.
“The series ties in with our School-to-Work program,” said Rod Nimtz, assistant executive director at the Middletown campus. “It's the first time we have broadened that initiative to work with the cable systems in the communities we serve. Together, we are trying to bring people into the workplace.”
“It's a perfect fit for us,” said Merrell Wood, director of TVMiddletown. “When this series came along and Rod brought it to our attention, we saw it as a complement to what we're already doing on Monday nights in our Focus on Education.”
“Workplace Essential Skills” represents the first real use of distance learning in Middletown, said Mr. Wood, and its impact on the two counties will increase as the series is broadcast by TVHamilton and ICRC, which serves communities from Mason to Deer Park.
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