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Woodard awarded Industry Alliance scholarship
The 2007 Alliance companies include Boise, Alabama River Pulp, Temple Inland, Weyerhaeuser, Olin Chemical, Rock Tenn, Gulf States and Louisiana Pacific. Alabama Southern Community College's Industry Alliance for a Technologically Advanced Workforce was selected as one of the top ten national Bellwether Finalists for the prestigious 2006 Bellwether Award for Workforce Development by the Community College Futures Assembly. This Scholarships-Internships- Jobs partnership was pioneered in 1995 between Alabama Southern and CIBA Specialty Chemicals. Since then, the American Chemical Society has described the partnership as a "workforce development model for the nation." The National Science Foundation has described it as a "national model for technical training" and awarded Alabama Southern a $5 million grant as the National Center for Pulp and Paper Technology Training to promote similar partnerships nationwide. Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY), one of the world's largest integrated forest products companies, was incorporated in 1900. In 2004, sales were $22.7 billion. It has offices or operations in 19 countries, with customers worldwide. Weyerhaeuser is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities.
Additional information about Weyerhaeuser's businesses, products and practices is available at http://www.weyerhaeuser. com.
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