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Barber-Scotia College Energy Institute

A healthy world economy is balanced and flexible requiring sustaining existing companies and stimulating new ones. Job creation and retention, expanded tax bases, access to capital and healthy workplace provide the core to both the public and the private sectors. Economic diversity is an imperative for success.

Barber-Scotia College's Energy Institute offers a comprehensive Bio Energy Educational Training Program to meet the demands of the newly emerging renewable energy industry. The program is designed to:

1.train and assist future leaders of a globalize economy in meeting the Energy demands of the 21st century,
2.prepare a competent work force to meet the challenges in moving energy resources toward a more sustainable economy.

Purpose of the Institute
1.The Barber-Scotia College Renewable Energy Curriculum will offer development and Promotion of the Biofuels industry of North Carolina in the following areas:
a.workforce development in the development of biofuels,
b.workforce development in the production,
c.workforce development in the distribution,
d.workforce development in the retail infrastructure,
e.and workforce development in the consumer purchase

2.The Barber-Scotia College Renewable Energy Curriculum will offer development and promotion of the Green Building industry of North Carolina in following areas:
a.Increase membership in the green workforce
b.Provide competent employees to NC business and industry to facilitate and grow the capacities in the in the installation, certification, or distribution of green building materials
c.workforce development in energy Audits
d.workforce development in marketing and sales of green building products
e.workforce development in green methods in North Carolina

3.The Barber-Scotia College Renewable Energy Curriculum through the benefit of workforce development and education will attract and leverage private sector investment or entrepreneurial growth in North Carolina related to a wide range of environmentally conscious clean technologies and renewable energy products and businesses in North Carolina. These workforce development benefits and outcomes enhance and facilitate the use and implementation of a wide range of environmentally preferable technologies, products and services by creating greater possibilities for individual members of the community who may otherwise have been unemployed prior to entry into the program. The areas positively affected may include, but are not limited to, renewable energy, fuel cells, transportation efficiency, water quality, water conservation, waste energy reclamation, advanced materials, energy efficiency, and clean distributed energy generation.
Institute Program Goals and Objectives

Establish a certificate training program in operations and maintenance for City Public utility personnel.

Implementation of an appropriate interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science degree in Bio Energy with program foci in entrepreneurship, engineering, and research.

Produce trained and competent workers to transition from post-secondary education to Green Jobs and independent employment helping to build financial stability and profitability of businesses.

Establish on-going working relationships with mayors (focus on minority)enabling educational benefits to them in the area of Bio Energy; alternative energy options for cities of the state and nation.

The Energy Institute will provide immediate benefits to the City of Concord and major energy industries by providing ongoing worker training and re-training and will provide leadership to the aggressive response to the energy challenge in North Carolina.

Our Mission

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We, at Barber-Scotia College believe that human dignity is an endowment from God and that all persons have the responsibility for developing their potential to the fullest and for devoting their creative energies toward making a better world. We believe that all persons have six important aspects- intellectual, physical, emotional, social, ethical and spiritual- and that their development of one aspect is integrally related to the development of all others. We, at Barber-Scotia, believe that this development and this integration must take place within a framework of cultural heritage and through a commitment to ideals arising from Christian and democratic principles.

Recognizing the unique and infinitely significant value of the individual, its our goal to provide an opportunity for all students to realize their capabilities. We will provide the opportunity through a liberal arts education in a community concerned with the interaction of cultures, Christain heritage, scholarship, citizenship, and leadership. The College continually seeks to provide an atmosphere and an environment in which learning will always be adventurous for the total community of scholars.

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