Undergraduate Catalog - Fairmont State University

Special Programs
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
Awards
B.B. Maurer WV Folklife Scholar Award annually honors
a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the
preservation and perpetuation of our Appalachian cultural
heritage, this award is named for Dr. B.B. Maurer (1920 - 2003),
considered the “Father of Cultural Studies in West Virginia.”
The Gabor WV Folklife Center Achievement Award is a special
recognition award in an area of folklore studies.
The Traditions Salute Award is an award that recognizes
special commitment towards the enhancement of West Virginia
folk culture through education and public resources.
Summer Teacher Institutes in partnership with the West
Virginia Humanities Council
Folk Festivals and Summer Celebrations
Fall and Spring Gatherings: Demonstrations, Exhibits,
Presentations
Study Abroad Travel Programs, such as Roads to
Appalachia through Scotland and Ireland; Italy;
England and Wales.
The Frank & Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at
Fairmont State is a part of the Department of Language and
Literature in The College of Liberal Arts. Located on the campus
of Fairmont State, 1201 Locust Avenue, Fairmont, West Virginia
26554. For more information contact Dr. Judy P. Byers at (304)
367-4403 or (304) 367-4286, Website: www.fairmontstate/
wvfolklife.edu.
Pierpont Community &
Technical College
CENTER FOR WORKFORCE EDUCATION
n Dale Bradley, Vice President
Workforce Development & Off Campus Programs
Center for Workforce Education
320 Adams Street, Suite G01, Fairmont / (304) 367-4920
dbradley@fairmontstate.edu
Pierpont Community and Technical College operates a
workforce training facility in downtown Fairmont at Veterans
Square, 320 Adams Street Suite G01. This 12,000 square foot
facility contains two state-of-the-art computer labs, four training
rooms, a conference area and business offices.
The Center is designed to provide a flexible environment,
enabling rapid response to regional business and industry
workforce training needs. Programs focus on upgrading current
workers skills and knowledge, professional development and
industry and certification for adults. Most activities are short
term, non-academic credit training programs.
The Center offers both customized and open enrollment
training. Customized training programs are specifically developed
to address identified training needs of regional business and
industry for their current workforce. Businesses may also lease
the Center’s computer and training rooms to deliver their
own training activity. Open enrollment training programs are
developed in response to a recognized regional need and are
open to any individual meeting the entrance requirements.
TESTING SERVICES
n Keith Nichols, Manager
Center for Workforce Education
320 Adams Street, Suite G01, Fairmont / (304) 367-4930
keith.nichols@fairmontstate.edu
ACT® AUTHORIZED TESTING CENTER
Pierpont Community & Technical College is an authorized
ACT Center. Pierpont’s ACT Center housed at the Center for
Workforce Education is operated in Partnership with ACT Inc., is
one of four authorized ACT Centers in the State of West Virginia
and one of approximately two hundred and thirty ACT Centers
nationwide.
The ACT Center is a “High Stakes” Testing Center for many
professions including certification and licensure testing. The center
also provides workplace assessment from ACT’s WorkKeys
products. WorkKeys is a national system for documenting and
improving workplace skills. There are two primary assessment
categories: Foundational Skills and Personal Skills. Foundational
skills assessments measure different applied job skills in the areas
of communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
Personal Skills primarily assess potential performance, talent and
fit for the position. To learn more about how WorkKeys can help
your business, please contact the Center Manager.
PEARSON VUE(r) AUTHORIZED TESTING CENTER
Pierpont Community & Technical College is an authorized
Pearson VUE(r) Testing Center. The college’s Pearson VUE(R)
Testing Center is housed at the Center for Workforce Education.
The Pearson VUE advanced computer-based testing system
administers exams for a variety of professions including; health
and medicine, financial services as well as leading IT certification
programs such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems(r), CompTIA, IBM
and others through a global network of quality test centers.
COLLEGE BOARD® (CLEP)
The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) allows
students to demonstrate that they have acquired college-level
mastery of course content in 34 different subject areas. Students
who successfully complete a CLEP exam can: Enrich their degree
programs with higher-level courses in the same discipline, expand
their horizons by taking a wider array of electives and avoid the
need to repeat material that they already know.
For students who are able to pursue their degrees only parttime,
or who are struggling to meet the rising cost of higher
education, CLEP offers an educationally sound, responsible way
to shorten the path to a college degree. This benefit makes earning
a degree more feasible - making it more likely that part-time or
financially strapped students will continue working toward a
degree.
Microsoft® Office Specialist (MOS) and Microsoft®
Business Certification Testing
The center has the ability to deliver the MOS and the Microsoft
Business Certification exams titles in Microsoft Office 2003 and
2007: Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, Access, and
Windows Vista through a partnership with Certiport. The
MOS and MBC are recognized as powerful indicators of office
proficiency.
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