The Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development Newsletter
CEWD TODAY! Get Trained. Get Hired. Newsletter from Hostos Community College Volume 1. No. 2
Spring 2024
Please Fill Out CEWD’s Fall 2023 Student Satisfaction Survey Hostos Community College's Division of Continuing Education and Workforce Development (CEWD) would like to learn more about your experience taking our classes and/or programs. To help us improve, we would like to know what you liked and did not about the classes and programs you took with us. This survey will take approximately 7 minutes to complete. Please note your responses will remain anonymous. We look forward to hearing from you. Here is the link to the survey: https://forms.office.com/r/7DgTmRfFd9
Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development Annual Report 2022-2023 As we reflect on the last academic year, we are grateful for all the successes we achieved because they reflect our commitment to helping students reach their academic and career goals. Below you will find a list of CEWD’s key highlights from Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.
CEWD Enrollment In Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, the Division of Continuing Education and Workforce Development (CEWD) enrolled 4,232 students. CEWD’s enrollment increased 61.8% from 2,615 in FY 2022 to 4,232 in FY 2023. The majority of CEWD students identify as female (56%) and reside in the Bronx (65%). Of the 2,660 CEWD students that elected to share information about their race/ethnicity, the majority identified as Latina/o/x/e (49%) and Black (40%). Eighty percent (80%) of our students successfully completed their training program. Students primarily enrolled in Construction (34%), Medical and Health (20%), and Adult Basic Education (20%)— GED and English for Speakers of Other Languages—courses. Of the students that successfully completed a tuition-supported CEWD occupational training program in FY 2023, 87% reported being employed.
CEWD’s No-cost Occupational Training Programs In response to the impact of the global pandemic on the communities we serve, CEWD increased its efforts to provide students with scholarships and no-cost programming. In FY 2023, CEWD raised $2,995,027 in funding to support our no-cost occupational training programs. Five-hundred and thirty-five (535) students enrolled in these programs and, to date, 79% or 424 successfully completed their training program in FY 2023. This year, the following occupational training programs were offered at no-cost to our students:
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