Duties

The Board shall have the following duties:

(a)to evaluate existing and potential job skills needed in Guam, including business, industry, territorial and federal governments;

(b)to coordinate and recommend improvements in career and technical educational programs in order to match career and technical education programs with current and existing job needs; CH. 31 GCC ADMINISTRATION

(c)to encourage work-study programs in industry and more scholarships funded by private employers, labor unions, territorial and federal governments;

(d)to encourage retraining programs for the unemployed and under-employed in order to provide a guaranteed work force;

(e)to evaluate and make recommendations for executive and legislative action to improve programs regarding job innovation and development;

(f)to act as the Board of Control for Vocational Education; and

(g)to formulate plans and objectives in measurable terms and to continuously evaluate, in terms of those plans and objectives, the various programs operated by the College to determine if the College is complying with its statutory mandate and to that end, to provide for five

(5)year follow-up studies of the various graduates of the various programs operated by the College;

(h)to evaluate and make recommendations to promote early childhood development and literacy to parents and guardians of children from birth to eight years of age, in consultation with the Department of Public Health and Social Services.