Communiversity executive directors speaks at West Point Rotary Club

GOLDEN TRIANGLE, Miss. (WCBI) – A special guest from the Communiversity was front and center at the West Point Rotary meeting Thursday.

Courtney Taylor is the Executive Director of the Communiversity.

State leaders have talked a lot about workforce training and development.

EMCC’s Communiversity is a big part of that.

Taylor said building partnerships with businesses and exposing students to what workforce training skills are offered is crucial in the success of creating a strong workforce community.

“I think one of the biggest problems we have in workforce development community colleges is that people don’t fully understand the opportunities that we have that we can provide. The Communiversity helps people see what that can be. It’s all the glass on the outside, it’s all the glass on the inside, so we can tour kindergartner if we want to and we can expose them to opportunities that they may not have another way of getting exposed to,” said Taylor.

Taylor also said she hopes to build partnerships with businesses outside of the regional area.