Mississippi § 37-151-75 - Mississippi Community College Board designated as primary support agency; powers.

§ 37-151-75. Mississippi Community College Board designated as primary support agency; powers.

The Mississippi Community College Board is designated as the primary support agency to the career centers and district councils. The state board may exercise the following powers: To provide the career centers the assistance necessary to accomplish the purposes of Sections 37-151-63 through 37-151-75; To provide the career centers consistent standards and benchmarks to guide development of the local workforce development system and to provide a means by which the outcomes of local services can be measured; To develop the staff capacity to provide, broker or contract for the provision of technical assistance to the career centers, including, but not limited to: Training local staff in methods of recruiting, assessment and career counseling; Establishing rigorous and comprehensive local pre-employment training programs; Developing local institutional capacity to deliver Total Quality Management training; Developing local institutional capacity to transfer new technologists into the marketplace; Expanding the Skills Enhancement Program and improving the quality of adult literacy programs; and Developing data for strategic planning; To collaborate with the Department of Economic and Community Development and other economic development organizations to increase the community college systems’ economic development potential; To administer presented and approved certification programs by the community colleges for tax credits and partnership funding for corporate training; To create and maintain an evaluation team that examines which kinds of curricula and programs and what forms of quality control of training are most productive so that the knowledge developed at one (1) institution of education can be transferred to others; To develop internal capacity to provide services and to contract for services from universities and other providers directly to local institutions; To develop and administer an incentive certification program; and To develop and hire staff and purchase equipment necessary to accomplish the goals set forth in this section.