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Abstract
California Community Colleges Assisting Economic Development GrowthTrack: Universities and Higher Education
Author(s): Richard Della Valle, Pablo Monzon
Co-Presenter/author: Pablo Monzon
Diablo Valley, Napa Valley, Las Positas, Chabot, and Solano unified together two years ago to develop a project to assist California's economic development future. This unlikely group of normally competitive colleges worked collaboratively for the first time under a California Community Colleges economic development grant issued by the Chancellor's Office. The project's goals were to enhance California's economic growth by developing Internet-based tools in GIS that would assist small to medium-sized businesses (and entrepreneurs) choose commercial real estate for their potential business ventures. The Web site is located at www.communitygis.org and (at the time of this writing) is beta tested for Napa County only. The site was built using MapObjects and ArcIMS. The project also had a second (more important) goal, and that was to teach basic computer-based skills to California Community College students and to place student interns into meaningful employment that had potential to lead to full-time jobs. In a beta-testing model, Napa Valley College assigned student interns the task of inputting all the commercial real estate data for the County. Students were given commercial real estate data gathered by the Napa Valley Economic Development Corporation. This data is updated monthly. The commercial real estate finder works as property map locator, site information report generator, and a full business demographics and expenditure analysis system. Visit this site and you will find a true virtual partnership that links education, business, government interests, and jobs.
Richard Della Valle
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