WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Henderson goes beyond the linear talent pipeline with an entire ecosystem of training, educational and workforce resources. Grounded in close public-private partnership, this comprehensive system works collaboratively and synergistically. Key components include:
- The new Center of Excellence training facility
- Employ NV Business Hubs and Employ NV One-Stop Career Centers
- Henderson’s high-performing K-12 schools
- The area’s multiple institutions of higher education.
All of these entities work together, guided by employer needs to create a demand-driven result: Precision-aligned workforce skill and aptitude.
Center of Excellence: Powerful connections
At the heart of this ecosystem, Henderson’s new Center of Excellence brings together resources, stakeholders, employers and workers. College of Southern Nevada, the state’s premier industrial trainer, operates the $12 million state-of-the-art facility, scheduled for opening in 2023. Experienced master staff are already working in collaboration with local industry in needs assessments, and the Center’s 2,000 hours of available modular curriculum is ready to be embedded in customized training for any size operation, from smaller companies to global leaders like Haas Automation, which will employ a staff of approximately 1,400 over the next four years at its new manufacturing complex.
Training environments at the 17,000 sq.-ft. Center will mirror the industrial setting with the latest iteration of workplace automation such as a CNC machining center. The Center’s competency-based model creates stackable skills, so that prospective workers can move efficiently and productively through the skills acquisition process from certifications leading to any needed degrees.
Workforce Connections: Opening more doors.
Henderson’s development ecosystem boosts effectiveness through multiple inputs, multiple entry points for those seeking skills and/or employment, and productive networking.
Workforce Connections, Southern Nevada’s Workforce Development Board, is a critical partner in workforce preparation: Initiatives by Workforce Connections have already made Clark County the largest county in the nation certified as an ACT WorkReady® community, a strong assurance of baseline skill. And through Employ NV Business Hubs and Employ NV Career Hubs, Workforce Connections serves as a strategic conduit, connecting employers to no-cost recruitment, collecting key information about employer needs, and connecting workers seeking new or refined skills.
Another portal for skills acquisition is the LEAP (Learn and Earn Advanced-career Pathways) program, which broadens the pathway for workers seeking to upskill while remaining employed.
K-12: Leading performance
Henderson’s K-12 school system is producing one of Nevada’s top graduation rates at 92.5%, with some schools reaching above 95%. Extensive career-technical opportunities and programs such as dual-enrollment advanced placement, a participating High School of BusinessTM site, and the International Baccalaureate help prepare Henderson students to graduate college- and career-ready. A new Career Technical Academy is scheduled for opening in 2025.
Higher education, higher achievement.
Henderson higher education graduates are ready to take on any challenge with critical skills and a global outlook fostered by the area’s 9 institutions of higher learning, including:
While NSC has grown steadily since its founding in 2002 as Nevada’s first four-year state college, recent enrollment growth has been especially rapid, rising 30% between 2018 and 2020. The college offers 9 majors in the school of education, 23 majors and 25 minors in liberal arts and sciences and 3 tracks in nursing, offerings now expanded through the $6 million Betty Engelstad School for Health Sciences facility, operated in collaboration with College of Southern Nevada. The school’s scenic 511-acre campus invites contemplation with open community space featuring solar panels, xeriscaping and an organic teaching garden which provides produce for the campus café.
The largest and most ethnically diverse college in Nevada, CSN also offers diversity in both programs and activities spread across campuses in Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. In addition to operating Henderson’s Center of Excellence training facility, the college provides paths for hundreds of degrees and certifications in 70 academic programs ranging from those that are laser focused on immediate employment to transferrable associate degrees in liberal arts like political science and psychology. CSN also caters to student interests with social and athletic extracurriculars.
Henderson was chosen as Roseman’s first campus location when the university was founded in 1999. This non-profit, private institution offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in pharmacy, nursing, dentistry and physician training, as well as a health-care focused MBA program. Roseman aims for high impact with the Roseman University Six-Point Mastery Learning Model®, and Roseman graduates have gone on to become successful in healthcare practice, research and public health and policy.
Centered on the core Judaic values of teaching, service and learning, Touro Nevada opened in 2004 as a satellite campus of Touro University California. From the inaugural student body of only 78 medical students, Touro has grown to an annual enrollment of more than 1,300 students in 7 areas of healthcare-related studies including nursing, physician assistant training, occupational therapy, physical therapy, osteopathic medicine and medical health sciences. Touro has also become an important community resource with its Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Active Aging Center, a full-service community patient center, and a physical therapy clinic.
Recognized in the top 3% of the nation’s research institutions by the Carnegie R1 classification, UNLV is a powerhouse in the classroom and in the laboratory. The University offers 220 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree programs; the institution’s annual enrollment of 30,000 creates a true knowledge asset for Nevada: Two-thirds of the University’s alumni choose to make their home in the state.
Nevada State College (NSC)
While NSC has grown steadily since its founding in 2002 as Nevada’s first four-year state college, recent enrollment growth has been especially rapid, rising 30% between 2018 and 2020. The college offers 9 majors in the school of education, 23 majors and 25 minors in liberal arts and sciences and 3 tracks in nursing, offerings now expanded through the $6 million Betty Engelstad School for Health Sciences facility, operated in collaboration with College of Southern Nevada. The school’s scenic 511-acre campus invites contemplation with open community space featuring solar panels, xeriscaping and an organic teaching garden which provides produce for the campus café.
College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
The largest and most ethnically diverse college in Nevada, CSN also offers diversity in both programs and activities spread across campuses in Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. In addition to operating Henderson’s Center of Excellence training facility, the college provides paths for hundreds of degrees and certifications in 70 academic programs ranging from those that are laser focused on immediate employment to transferrable associate degrees in liberal arts like political science and psychology. CSN also caters to student interests with social and athletic extracurriculars.
Roseman University of Health Sciences
Henderson was chosen as Roseman’s first campus location when the university was founded in 1999. This non-profit, private institution offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in pharmacy, nursing, dentistry and physician training, as well as a health-care focused MBA program. Roseman aims for high impact with the Roseman University Six-Point Mastery Learning Model®, and Roseman graduates have gone on to become successful in healthcare practice, research and public health and policy.
Touro University Nevada
Centered on the core Judaic values of teaching, service and learning, Touro Nevada opened in 2004 as a satellite campus of Touro University California. From the inaugural student body of only 78 medical students, Touro has grown to an annual enrollment of more than 1,300 students in 7 areas of healthcare-related studies including nursing, physician assistant training, occupational therapy, physical therapy, osteopathic medicine and medical health sciences. Touro has also become an important community resource with its Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Active Aging Center, a full-service community patient center, and a physical therapy clinic.
University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV)
Recognized in the top 3% of the nation’s research institutions by the Carnegie R1 classification, UNLV is a powerhouse in the classroom and in the laboratory. The University offers 220 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree programs; the institution’s annual enrollment of 30,000 creates a true knowledge asset for Nevada: Two-thirds of the University’s alumni choose to make their home in the state.
Healthcare: Higher degree of collaboration.
Reflecting effective alignment, healthcare-related fields comprise five of the top 10 degrees earned at area institutions which include CSN, NSC, Roseman, Touro and UNLV. And these institutions are continuing to strengthen and diversify the talent pipeline through innovative collaborative efforts such as the new Betty Engelstad School of Health Sciences facility, the result of a partnership between CSN and NSC. Touro and NSC also work together in offering a dual bachelor’s and master’s degree program.
As war raged in Europe, magnesium was urgently needed for the aluminum alloy used in making bombs, munitions casings and airplane bodies. So, in 1941 the U.S. Government began discreet operations to solve the problem. A contract was made with Basic Magnesium Incorporated to build a magnesium manufacturing complex in southern Nevada. Codename: Plancor 201.
The plant geared up quickly, the town that became Henderson grew up around it, and Basic Magnesium eventually produced more than 166 million pounds of refined magnesium that helped win the war. Integral to that effort were the women who took on the rugged work at the plant—"Magnesium Maggies,” as they were named by a local historian. Although Rosie the Riveter may be more widely known, Magnesium Maggies came through with flying colors, just as Henderson’s manufacturing workforce does today, and that’s no secret!
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As war raged in Europe, magnesium was urgently needed for the aluminum alloy used in making bombs, munitions casings and airplane bodies. So, in 1941 the U.S. Government began discreet operations to solve the problem. A contract was made with Basic Magnesium Incorporated to build a magnesium manufacturing complex in southern Nevada. Codename: Plancor 201.
The plant geared up quickly, the town that became Henderson grew up around it, and Basic Magnesium eventually produced more than 166 million pounds of refined magnesium that helped win the war. Integral to that effort were the women who took on the rugged work at the plant—"Magnesium Maggies,” as they were named by a local historian. Although Rosie the Riveter may be more widely known, Magnesium Maggies came through with flying colors, just as Henderson’s manufacturing workforce does today, and that’s no secret!