The Center for Economic & Community Development delivers business and industry training, non-credit continuing education, cultural events, and other community services in southern Middle Tennessee. If you want to develop new skills, improve your organization’s performance, or just learn new things, you have come to the right place!
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Our programs include:
- Online Professional Development
- Business & Industry Training Programs
- Medical Transcription, A+ and Network+, and other featured programs
- Regents Online Continuing Education (ROCE) offers online non-credit courses designed to upgrade skills, improve organizations, industries, economic performance and provide personal enrichment courses for persons who wish to obtain knowledge and learn new skills. ROCE program costs vary by course; fees are non-refundable once program starts. (Not to be confused with RODP, the Regents Online Degree Program, which offers online credit courses towards degrees. Yes, ROCE is on the RODP site, but these are separate programs, both offered by TBR.)
- TBR Workforce Training - In the last decade, Tennessee has experienced remarkable economic growth and the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) community colleges have played an integral role in the progress. From providing short-term programs to customized, long-term initiatives, each of the thirteen public community colleges have developed innovative strategies to meet the workforce training needs of the local community, region and state. During the past three years, the TBR community colleges provided training for more than 1500 industries and small businesses across the State. During that same period, more than 150,000 employees received training in skills ranging from GED preparation to computer networking administration.
To learn more about Continuing Education / ECD programs:
Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Phone: (931) 540-2660, or 1-800-848-0298 for hearing impaired
E-mail: ecd@columbiastate.edu