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Intel is coming. Ohio community colleges say the state’s workers will be ready.

William Muir heard about Intel coming to Ohio during a ride to work.

“My Uber driver and I were talking about how we weren’t making that much money,” remembers the line cook. “She told me about the plant coming, and that they were investing billions of dollars.”

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A major step in moving the dial on postsecondary career and technical education comes during a nationwide push to bolster middle-skill labor,andget Americans to work.

The semiconductor chip behemoth is building two plants at a cost of $20 billion and estimates they will bring 3,000 new jobs.

To prepare for its arrival, Intel wants to be sure that it has workers ready to go when the new campus opens. It has donated $50 million to Columbus State Community College (CSCC) and other community colleges it has partnered with to build curriculum. Columbus is the fastest-growing city in the state, and Intel is one of several Fortune 500 companies that have made major investments in the surrounding area.

Mr. Muir visited the CSCC campus a week after that fateful ride and enrolled. Now he’s three semesters in.

“It feels really good to be back in school and working toward something that has a higher potential, because before I would go to work and be like, ‘Why am I doing this if I’m not happy?’” Mr. Muir reflects.

On a 1,000-acre plot of land in New Albany, Ohio, 15 miles northeast of Columbus, dozens of cranes tower in the sky, their jibs and booms moving while hooks swing back and forth. They are building, and their work will beget more work for many years to come. Intel is coming.

The semiconductor behemoth based in Silicon Valley is building two chip manufacturing plants at a cost of $20 billion. The company estimates they will bring 3,000 new jobs to this Rust Belt state.

“Ohio is benefiting from reshoring that’s happening in the U.S., and [with] the investment that’s happening at a federal level as well as the state level, there’s no doubt about it,” says Scot McLemore, executive in residence at Columbus State Community College.

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A major step in moving the dial on postsecondary career and technical education comes during a nationwide push to bolster middle-skill labor,andget Americans to work.

Like an NFL general manager, Intel has cast a wide net to recruit talent to fuel its workforce. CSCC is one of several community colleges that Intel has partnered with in Ohio to build curriculum. The company donated $50 million to these schools and other education initiatives across the state.

“We are becoming more focused on that talent demand, and we’re identifying barriers that are preventing us from getting more individuals in our communities into those pathways,” Mr. McLemore adds.

Columbus is the fastest-growing city in the state, and Intel is one of several Fortune 500 companies that have made major investments in the surrounding area. To prepare for its arrival, Intel wants to be sure that it has workers ready to go when the new campus opens in 2027 or 2028. In partnerships like the one with CSCC, the company has shared information on their chipmaking process with schools and designed curriculum to ready students for entry level positions that require anything from a certificate of completion to an associate degree or higher.

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