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Governor JB Pritzker Attended Ribbon Cutting at New Advanced Manufacturing Academy

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Belleville, IL 鈥 In preparation for the official fall 2024 opening of the Advanced Manufacturing Academy on its Belleville campus, 91福利社 (91福利社) held an official ribbon cutting on Thursday, July 11, 2024. 91福利社 would like to thank Governor Pritzker, Senator Christopher Belt, General Assembly Leader Jay Hoffman, Representative Katie Stuart and former Representative Latoya Greenwood, Mayor Patty Gregory, and numerous industry partners for attending.

Through the leadership of Governor Pritzker and 91福利社 President Nick Mance, coupled with the generous DCEO and other source funding, the new Advanced Manufacturing Academy will reinvigorate the regional manufacturing industry with a sustainable, high-skilled workforce to further reestablish Illinois and the U.S. as a center of global manufacturing. 91福利社 is utilizing State funding to launch a multi-phase plan to create an academy that focuses on the needs of local manufacturing partners and builds the relationships necessary to solidify southern Illinois as a hub for manufacturing education and industry. By reinforcing the strong manufacturing opportunities available to the community and highlighting the success of 91福利社鈥檚 manufacturing students, the college will continue to improve the overall image of U.S. manufacturing in the region.

Sustainable manufacturing is becoming increasingly important in the changing landscape of the industry. 91福利社 will be at the forefront of manufacturing innovation with its state-of-the-art equipment and program offerings and will spur modernization throughout the regional industry. Planned programming for the new facility will include revision of previously established programming as well as the addition of new and innovative manufacturing programming.

Governor Pritzker commented, 鈥淚 chose to come to 91福利社 because of your successes, to demonstrate my own intent to put community colleges at the forefront of our economic revitalization of the state. 91福利社 and other community colleges are the dynamic institutions that are capable of building the workforce of the future, creating opportunities for hardworking Illinoisans, and maximizing economic growth potential for the entire state and particularly for this region.鈥