California Department of Food & Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross this week praised WHCC’s “exciting” leadership of applied agriculture education and job creation in her customary opening statement to the Board of Food & Agriculture monthly meeting. She mentioned the college’s leadership of a six-campus consortium of community colleges re-creating career technical education and its focus on employment development for farmworkers as PCAs, irrigation specialists and food safety workers. She said WHCC was collaborating with 5 major ag employers to develop tailored curriculum.
