I am profoundly tardy in posting a link to George Rebane’s piece in The Union newspaper on Sierra College and the Nevada County Campus efforts to promote economic development.

George offers some solid suggestions in the piece on where the college should focus its efforts to see the greatest results from economic development efforts. I made the point in a brief interview we did that the NCC campus is currently one of the pillars (workforce development) that you build economic development on, but isn’t a primary driver of economic development itself.

Down the hill in Rocklin, one of the ways we’re working to make it more of a primary driver is the establishment of SCEL, the Sierra College Entrepreneurship Lab. It’s still a work in progress, but the planning is in process to help budding entrepreneurs develop their skills and learn how to put their ideas into action. More on that down the road.