Already, seven major health employers have agreed to create 1,100 combined entry-level positions that pay at least $15 an hour and include benefits.
Dallas College Chancellor Justin Lonon speaks at a press conference on Thursday at BioLabs, a co-working space at Pegasus Park. Dallas College is leading an initiative to train underserved populations to take up future jobs in the booming biotechnology field in North Texas.Dallas College will use an $8.8 million grant to lead a workforce development program to train underrepresented populations for the growing biotechnology field in North Texas.
“They said, ‘Look we have jobs to fill,’” said Tom Luce, CEO of biotech initiatives at Lyda Hill Philanthropies, which partnered with J. Small Investments on the Pegasus Park redevelopment. Dallas College has many partners in the initiative. Collin College, Tarrant County College and the University of Texas at Arlington will offer an introductory boot camp to train 800 workers for entry-level biotech jobs.
“The underserved communities were the hardest hit by the pandemic,” he said. “And this is a way to get those folks who are in retail jobs and other jobs more susceptible to economic shock into a stable job with upper mobility.”
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