New College Institute; noncredit workforce training.

New College Institute; noncredit workforce training. Permits the board of directors at New College Institute to providespecialized noncredit workforce training independent of local comprehensivecommunity colleges when such community colleges are unable to meetidentified industry needs. Under current law, if comprehensive communitycolleges are unable to meet identified industry needs, the boardmay seek to collaborate with other education providers or other publicand private organizations to provide specialized noncredit workforcetraining but does not have the explicit authority to provide suchtraining on its own.