The CJCC, in partnership with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA), recently hosted a delegation from Middle East/North Africa on September 14, 2015. The international guest traveled stateside to learn more about workforce development and alternatives in higher education. Inspirational emergent leaders from Iraq, Morocco, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia journeyed across Cleveland learning about best practices and successful case studies of work-force development programs. Given the diversification of Cleveland’s economy and the subsequent proliferation of career training and skills-based trade apprenticeship programs, Cleveland is a magnet for workforce development groups coming to the United States through the State Department. These visitors are invited to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. “You have such an impressive array of programs at the Job Corps, and our visitors were blown away by the incredible quality of your curriculum and on-campus accommodations,” expressed CCWW Inter-national Program Officer, Katie Ferman. “Given the immense success of this session, we certainly hope you would be open to meeting with other international visitors in the future who are interested in learning more about the Job Corps’ programs.”