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nother. MISSION OF THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM The mission of the Technical College System is workforce development. Louisiana’s human and business resources demand and educated and technically petent workforce. The system provides relevant technical and academic education needed to assist individuals in making informed and meaningful occupational choices. Its purpose is to train, retrain, and continually upgrade the State’s workforce to the end that individuals are employable at both entry and advanced levels. Its focus is employer friendly and economy driven to enhance personal development, increase economic opportunity, and contribute to the state, national, and international munities. 2 MISSION OF NORTHSHORE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE The mission of NTCC is to provide relevant technical and academic education needed by individuals to make informed and meaningful occupational choices, to train and retrain individuals to qualify for employment in existing or potential occupational fields, and to mesh in a system of articulation with secondary and postsecondary technical colleges/higher education institutions to continue training and to upgrade skills and education credentials of the workforce. HISTORY OF FLORIDA PARISHES CAMPUS Northshore Technical Community College– Florida Parishes Branch Campus was established in 1952 by the State Legislature to offer vocational training to the students of this geographic area. In 1990, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education renamed all vocational schools to describe their function more accurately. This school became Florida Parishes Technical Institute. In the early 1990s, Quick Start funds were used to train employees for furniture manufacturing and the institute became involved in Tech Prep and articulation activities with area high schools and the local university. In 1995, the agency for accreditation affiliation for all the technical institutes became the Council on Occupational Education (COE), the successor anization of the Commission on Occupational Education Institutions of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (COE/SACS). Also in 1995, all institutes that were still on a fourday week were changed back to a fiveday week, and all institutes were renamed Louisiana Technical College this campus designated as Florida Parishes Campus. The colleges began offering Associate of Applied Technology Degrees in the Office Occupations programs with other programs to follow as curriculums were developed. Act 506 of the 2020 Regular Legislative Session proposed a reanization of the Louisiana Technical College. LCTCS adopted the 21st Century Model for the Delivery of Technical Education effective July 1, 2020. The reanization consists of nine Regional Technical Education Centers. Florida Parishes Campus was placed in LTC Region 9. LTC Region 9 consisted of four campuses: Sullivan Main Campus – Bogalusa, LA, Hammond Area Branch Campus – Hammond, LA, and the Florida Parishes Branch Campus – Greenburg, LA. As part of an ongoing effort to align the efforts of LCTCS institutions with the shifting needs of the state and the munities they serve, a few structural and name changes that have been formally approved by the LCTCS Board of Supervisors. Louisiana Technical College Region 9 was renamed Northshore Technical College effective March 10, 2020. In addition, the college was restructured to consist of three campuses: Sullivan Main Campus – Bogalusa, LA, Hammond Area Branch Campus – Hammond, LA, and Florida Parishes Branch Campus – Greensburg, LA. Ascension Branch Campus was restructured with River Parishes Community College. 3 MISSION OF INSTITUTION The mission of the Northshore Technical Community College – Florida Parishes Branch Campus is to provide relevant technical and academic education needed by individuals to make informed and meaningful occupational choices, to train and retrain individuals to qualify for employment in existing or potential occupational fields, and to mesh in a system of articulation with secondary and post secondary technical colleges/higher education institutions to continue training and to upgrade skills and education credentials of the workforce. HISTORY OF HAMMOND AREA CAMPUS The Northshore Technical College – Hammond Area Branch Campus is a public institution that operates under the laws of the State of Louisiana and under the direction of the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. The Hammond Associate of Commerce initiated the inception of a vocational school in the City of Hammond in April 1962. In October 1962 the State Bond and Building Commission allocated moneys, Act 112 of 1960, to the State Board of Education for the purchase of a building and for structural changes within the building. The State Board of Education purchased the former building in June 1963. Building renovations began in June 1963 and were pleted in June 1964. In August 1964, William D. Allen was appointed director of the newly created Hammond Area Vocational School by the State Board of Education. In September 1964 temporary office space for the director and staff was provided by the City of Hammond on a rentfree basis. The first classes opened were Automotive Technology and Office Occupations in October 1965. During the following month, the Practical Nursing course began its first class. The first Practical Nursing class of 18 students graduated in January 1967 at Reimer’s Memorial Auditorium. In December 1965 the Drafting Technology course was started. Between July 1966 and January 1967, the rest of the building was renovated to prepare for the inception of the Electronics Technology and Welding courses. The Electronics Technology course was initiated in March 1970 f