Mr. Andrew Carpenter

Carpenter Named New Executive V.P. Of Rochester Business

Andrew Carpenter

8/5/2007 - Andrew Carpenter of Dunkirk is the new executive vice president of Career Systems Development Corporation of Rochester, and Irvine, Calif., operator of 10 Job Corps centers nationwide and the Chautauqua County One-stops.

Carpenter has a long tenure at Cassadaga Job Corps, more than 10 years of which was spent as academy director.During that time, Cassadaga rose to its current status as one of the nation's top-ranked centers, still maintained today.Carpenter has since served as director of Penobscot Job Corps Academy in Bangor, Maine, and most recently as vice president of program development for CSD.

In his new role, he will be responsible for education and training operations for the company's Job Corps centers in Sacramento, San Diego and San Jose, Calif.; Laredo, Texas; St. Paul, Minn.; New Orleans, La,; Bangor, Maine; Morganfield, Ky., New Haven, Conn., and Cassadaga, providing academic and technical training for more than 3,400 youths annually.CSD, an Owl Company, operates Job Corps centers for the U.S. Department of Labor.

Carpenter and his wife, Catherine, will relocate to Irvine, Calif.He is a graduate of Fredonia High School and the State University at Fredonia.

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Andrew Carpenter, the new director at Penobscot Job Corps Academy, hopes to effectively lead and guide students in his new position.He comes to the center from Career Systems Development Corp., which recently won a U.S. Department of Labor contract to run the academy.
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Andrew Carpenter, the new director at Penobscot Job Corps Academy, hopes to effectively lead and guide students in his new position.He comes to the center from Career Systems Development Corp., which recently won a U.S. Department of Labor contract to run the academy.
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Andrew Carpenter has been on the job since Career Systems Development Corp. of West Henrietta, N.Y., took over running the Union Street school in October.

He said his rocks are tools he uses to break ground with students.Each is inscribed with inspirational words or phrases.

"The rocks go with me wherever I go," Carpenter said Wednesday from his office.
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Since then, the school has been known as Penobscot Job Corps Academy, but the facility's mission has not changed, Carpenter said.

"What we do as a staff is coach, motivate and help students grow," he said.

The Bangor center is one of some 120 residential Job Corps centers nationwide that provide academic, vocational and life-skills training to teenagers and young adults, many of whom have dropped out of traditional schooling.

Carpenter has worked with Job Corps for nearly two decades.
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The biggest difference between the Job Corps centers in New York and Maine is who attends, Carpenter said.
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With his experience comes knowledge of programs that work, Carpenter said.
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"Nursing and construction are the No. 5 and No. 14 highest demanded jobs in Maine," Carpenter said.
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Carpenter has family ties in Jonesboro and Machias.
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"Our goal is to become the No. 1 Job Corps in the country," Carpenter said.

"Part of the program is to help develop diversity and multicultural attitudes," Andrew Carpenter, Penobscot Job Corps Academy director, said.

and operated by Career Systems, Inc., The Cassadaga Center, under the direction of Center Director, Andrew Carpenter, is one of the most successfully managed Job Corps facilities in the

March 2006, Penobscot, Maine: Andrew Carpenter, Center Director for Penobscot Job Corps Academy and Christopher Kuselias, CEO of CTL announced that Penobscot had reached an agreement to incorporate the newly created CTL/TPI Career Success Skills program as a mandatory requirement for all students.
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Commented Kuselias, "I applaud the forsesight of Mr. Carpenter and his organization for taking advantage of this cost effective and beneficial staff development and student preparation program.