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Danville Area Community College’s Corporate Education is offering Understanding & Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment: For Managers, Non-Management and Licensed Healthcare Providers on August 12, 2020. The sessions will be held at the DACC Bremer Conference Center for $29 per person.

Effective January 1, 2020, ALL Illinois employers are required to provide Sexual Harassment training to all employees.

Danville Area Community College’s Corporate Education is offering Forklift Operator Training on Monday, July 13 from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the DACC Bremer Conference Center. Participants must be at least 18 years old. Dress for outdoor forklift driving (long pants, closed toe shoes, etc.)

Danville Area Community College’s Corporate Education is offering The Craft of Coaching. The training provides coaching tools for leaders that empower. The training will be held July 29 & July 30, 2020 from 8AM-4PM CST at the DACC Bremer Conference Center.

We will be following all CDC issued guidelines for Covid-19.

Danville Area Community College’s Corporate Education has several new and rescheduled training opportunities available for July and August 2020.

• INTRO TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT (Kata Method) - July 9, 2020; 8:00am-5:00pm

• FORKLIFT NEW DRIVER COURSE - July 13, 2020; 8:00am-5:00pm

• INTRO TO MAINTENANCE STOREROOM MANAGEMENT - July 14, 2020; 8:00am-5:00pm

• COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION TRAINING - July 15-Sept 17, 2020; Wednesday/Thursday; 6:00pm-9:15pm

Danville Area Community College’s Corporate Education is offering Leadership Boot Camp 2020. Give your supervisors/managers the skills they need for success! The Leadership Boot Camp is 8 unique courses in a condensed leadership series led by Steve Welland. The series will be held from July 2020-November 2020.

Seating is limited so enroll today! Classes held 8:00 am-12:00 pm at the DACC Bremer Conference Center, Room 110.

For more information or to register, call Brittany Woodworth at 217.443.8779 or email bwoodworth@dacc.edu

Danville Area Community College President Stephen Nacco announced this week that campus operations will resume normal business beginning Monday, July 6.

In a letter to employees, Nacco stated that “all academic and administrative departments will be open for regular business and will resume staffing their offices with full-time employees as if this were the “old normal” summer, albeit with social-distancing, masks, hand sanitizer, and ongoing cleaning and disinfecting of high-volume areas.”

Don and Deanna Witzel, owners of all five Vermilion County McDonald’s restaurants, added $10,000 to their established DACC Foundation scholarship this week, making it fully endowed and self supporting. Endowed scholarships are awarded from the earnings of a restricted fund – or corpus.

The Danville Area Community College Board of Trustees and the Danville Area Community College Classified Staff Association (DACC-CSA), representing classified staff at DACC, ratified a new four-year agreement.  The agreement allows for a three percent increase in each of the four years, and provides an additional $500 added to the base salary of employees obtaining a 5-year milestone year. As an incentive to not use sick days, employees will earn 1/2 vacation day for each month that no sick time is used.

Danville Area Community College has scheduled its Annual Golf Outing for Friday, July 10, 2020 at the Danville Country Club.

 
The Afternoon Flight registration is from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. with a 1:15 p.m. shotgun start.

A box lunch will be served to all golfers from Noon-1:00 p.m. Buffet style will not be available due to current restrictions.

The event will be limited to the first 29 teams. Each team will be assigned 2 carts. Team members can use the carts as they wish due to comfort levels (4 ride or 2 ride/2 walk).

Danville Area Community College is offering Commercial Refrigeration Training. The class will be held Wednesday and Thursday, July 15-September 17, 2020 from 6:00 p.m.-9:15 p.m. in the DACC Technology Center, Room 143.