Great Falls Vocational-Technical Center
The Great Falls Vocational-Technical Center is a postsecondary education institution providing employment training and upgrading in vocational and technical fields to one of Montana's two major metropolitan areas. Instruction and community service are designed to meet present and emerging local, state, regional and national occupational needs.
The Great Falls Vocational-Technical Center provides occupationally specific and related instruction to meet a diversity of employment needs. The related education core curriculum includes courses in communication, computation and human relations and, when appropriate, safety, industrial safety and environmental awareness. Academic skill building laboratories to support technical training programs offer individualized learning opportunities in reading, language, mathematics and study skills. Twenty-two programs are offered in three occupational specialty areas of health, business, and trades and industry. Within the State's five-center system, the vocational-technical offerings that are unique to the Great Falls Center are:
The Great Falls Vocational-Technical Center will continue to offer occupationally specific and related instruction opportunities on campus as well as through distance-learning methods to prepare or retrain individuals to meet the demands of present and future technology. The Center will participate in the process of developing collaborative relationships with other postsecondary institutions, public and private, to provide beneficial and accessible educational opportunities and to ensure the most effective and responsible use of resources.
The Great Falls Vocational-Technical Center awards certificates of completion and Associate of Applied Science degrees, as appropriate, to students who successfully meet exit criteria of the occupational training program in which they are enrolled.
The Great Falls Vocational-Technical Center gives particular emphasis to technical and occupational training for individuals, business, labor, military, government, and human resource agencies. The Center provides open admission for residents of Montana and members of the United States Armed Forces who are assigned in Montana, their spouses, and dependent children.
History:
Item 66-7001-R0190, Role and Scope Statements for the Vocational- Technical Centers, March 22, 1990.