[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7388]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      RECOGNIZING NHTI, CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to underscore the importance of 
increasing access to higher education, including crucial workforce 
development programs that help our students gain the high-tech skills 
they need to succeed in our 21st century economy.
  In New Hampshire, we are blessed to have some of the very best 
community colleges in the country, and I am proud to have visited every 
single community college in my district.
  Today I would like to recognize one institution, the New Hampshire 
Technical Institute, the community college in our capital of Concord, 
which was just ranked number one in the country for value added by the 
Brookings Institution. That means that NHTI students are meeting and 
surpassing expected outcomes after graduation, and many of them are 
going on to extremely successful careers.
  Every student should have access to this type of opportunity, and I 
am pushing for a number of initiatives that will help business partners 
join with community colleges to provide specific job training. Let's 
all join together to make sure that students across the country can 
access the kind of value-added programs offered at NHTI. And together, 
we can move forward so that every American can realize the American 
Dream.

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