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ComEd Joins City Colleges of Chicago to Announce Accreditation of Power Up Academy and Celebrate Latest Graduates
Career Training Program Provides Participants an Opportunity to Earn a Semester’s Worth of Credits During 14-Week Training CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ComEd
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCareer Training Program Provides Participants an Opportunity to Earn a Semester’s Worth of Credits During 14-Week Training\n\n\n CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nComEd today joined workforce partners and members of the community in celebrating its newest graduating class from Power Up Academy, a career training program launched last year to remove barriers to entry for local residents pursuing engineering related careers. During the event, City Colleges of Chicago and ComEd announced plans to expand their partnership through the accreditation of the program, ensuring that all past and future participants of the program will have the opportunity to qualify for up to 13 credit hours as part of their 14-week training program.\n\n\n“ComEd’s Power Up Academy is helping ensure more of our diverse communities are a significant part of the opportunity for good-paying jobs in the engineering related professions. And our expanded partnership with City Colleges of Chicago will ensure that participants of this program have a chance to gain entry to in-demand roles supporting the grid and the fast-growing energy sector here in Illinois,” said Mark Baranek, SVP of technical services at ComEd. “With the clean energy transition underway in Illinois, this will require the region to develop more skilled and diverse talent to help us modernize the grid and ensure continued reliability for more than 9 million people who depend on ComEd every day.”\n\n\nThe accreditation of Power Up Academy will offer graduates the chance to earn up to 13 college credit hours towards a relevant degree program at the City Colleges of Chicago. For participants of the ComEd training program, this eliminates roughly an entire semester of college coursework free of cost and helps support trainees in continual career advancement.\n\n\n“City Colleges of Chicago is committed to supporting students across the Chicagoland area with educational opportunities that prepare them for a variety of high growth, good paying careers, including those in the utility and construction sectors,” said Dr. Webb Walker, president of Kennedy-King College. “Through our partnership with ComEd, we are providing Power Up Academy participants with an opportunity to earn college credit hours during their technical services training, ensuring that more women and diverse students who have been underrepre...