ASCC program chosen to be on PBS/APT show

Alabama Southern's Paper and Chemical Technology program has been chosen to be featured on a new PBS/APT show entitled "On the Job." AIDT (Alabama Industrial Development Training) in Montgomery has recently taken on the opportunity to host and produce "On the Job."

"We are highlighting different companies, the colleges, jobs being offered in Alabama, and various stories like that, in those type categories, as long as they involve Alabama," said Heather Holladay, producer for the show. "I am responsible for producing the segment on the two-year colleges. We are fashioning our show after a show that is aired on TLC called "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe."

Alabama Southern Community College was awarded an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) National Center of Excellence Grant by the National Science Foundation in the amount of $4,989,604 (over a four-year period) in July 2004. Through this grant, Alabama Southern Community College established the National Center for Pulp and Paper Technology on its Thomasville Campus and led the development of the National Network for Pulp and Paper Technology Training- (npt)2. The mission of the National Center and Network, with the support of other twoyear colleges, universities, and a national array of pulp and paper companies and mills and national organizations, is to provide the pulp and paper sector of the United States forest products industry with a technologically advanced workforce (TAW) that will preserve this core American industry and help to assure it is globally competitive.

This network built on the success of Alabama Southern's Associate Degree program in Paper and Chemical Technology. Working in close collaboration with local industry, Auburn University, the Alabama Technology Network (ATN), the American Forest and Paper Association's Agenda 2020 TAW Task Group, and with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Alabama Southern has created the nation's leading training center for paper and chemical workers. Industry scholarships and internships and state-of-the-art manufacturing laboratories have produced graduates of the 2-year Associate Degree program who have set a new standard as 21st century knowledge technologists for the pulp, paper, and chemical industries.

The show concept is to highlight Alabama, showing what jobs and training opportunities are available here and what is special about us.

"We have been going to the different colleges and interviewing teachers and students, and having the school set something up within the different programs that our host could do hands-on, like doing what the students do in the labs, in the classes, on their internships, or even let them teach him how to do whatever the program may consist of," added Holladay.

Filming is set to take place in late August with the show premiering in September.

For more information, contact Stephanie Etheredge, Director of Public Information, 251-575-8265.

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