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The SIU Center for Workforce Development is a research, curriculum, and administrative service resource for Illinois educators and trainers.
SIU Center for Workforce Development (SIU CWD) is part of the Department of Workforce Education and Development, College of Education and Human Services at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The purpose of the CWD is to align programs relative to changing economic, education, demographic, legislative, and technological environments.
The goal of the CWD is to link together education, work, and training to help create a professional and technical workforce and to maintain a strong commitment to excellence in the workforce through workplace education, training, development, and reform.
Primarily, the CWD oversees the administration of grant funded projects for a variety of State of Illinois agencies which focuses on broad workforce education and development initiatives. Projects under the SIU Center for Workforce Development include:
• ILCTE Curriculum Revitalization Project
• Illinois workNet Administrative Office
• SIU WED Bachelor of Science Degree at Springfield
• Illinois CNA Testing Center