Participants learned about an innovative New Jersey initiative that allows registered apprenticeship programs to be evaluated for college credit. To date, five of the building and construction trades participate. In the coming year the program will expand to other apprenticeship occupations.

Moderated by Maureen O’Brien Murphy, State Employment & Training Commission

Panelists: Dr. Peter Contini, President, Salem County Community College; Peter Ielmini, Apprentice Director & Chairman, New Jersey Building Construction Trades Department and Coordinator, International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators & Asbestos Workers Local 32; Dr. Susan Schurman, Director, Rutgers Division of Continuing Education & Outreach Lifelong Learning and Professor, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations; Charles Wowkanech, President, New Jersey State AFL-CIO