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Laurance J. Warford, CCTI Project Director and Senior Consultant for Workforce Development, League for Innovation in the Community College

Dr. Laurance Warford ( B.A./M.A. Business and Education, University of Northern Iowa/ Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Oregon) is presently serving as Project Director for the College and Career Transitions Initiative (CCTI), a cooperative agreement between the United States Department of Education, Office of Adult and Vocational Education, and the League for Innovation in the Community College. Previously, Dr. Warford served as the Community College Liaison for America’s Career Kit in the United States Department of Labor. His responsibilities included the promotion of collaborative efforts between the USDOL and America’s Community Colleges.

Dr. Warford’s community college career consists of over thirty years of a wide range of teaching and administrative experience. He was an administrator at Lane Community College beginning in 1978 where he served as Vice President for Instruction and Vice President for Community and Economic Development, as well as other leadership positions there. He was also a consultant for the American Association of Community College and has served on the ACCC’s Workforce and Economic Development Commission. He began his community college career in Iowa where he helped establish Iowa Central Community College.
His publications include articles on comprehensive workforce training, the need for policy change to provide lifelong learning for a competitive workforce, and other subjects of interest to local, state, and national leaders in community colleges. He conducted a national study on state funding for non-credit programs in the community college and has published the results of this study in journals by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), The League for Innovation in the Community College, and the National Council for Continuing Education and Training (NCCET). Dr. Warford’s seminal research in contract training led to the creation of the national customized training network for community colleges in the League for Innovation in the Community College, as well as the League’s national workforce initiative.

He has also served on AACC’s and on the Advisory Committee for the Career and Technical Education dissemination project operated by The Ohio State University and the University of Illinois.