In 2013, Lanier Technical College (LTC), Oakwood, Ga., began offering an HVAC learning opportunity with a twist. Its Technical Certificate of Credit (TCC) involved apprenticeship opportunities. Freddie Williams, chair of the air conditioning department at LTC, described TCC as “a series of college-credit occupational courses designed to meet employer demands in a given vocational field, which does not include traditional academic content such as the humanities or social sciences.”
The Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), which oversees the state of Georgia’s technical colleges and other learning programs, approached Williams to review the NCCER curriculum for the purpose of using it in TCSG colleges, he said.