From Brett Pritchard
CACC Public Relations
TOP PHOTO: Front Row: Jeff Lynn, President, CACC, Woody Baird, Mayor, Alexander City, Sandra Howell, Human Resources, SL Alabama, Kyungsoo Koo, President, SL Alabama. Back Row: Michael Barnette, Dean of Workforce, CACC, T.C. Coley, Commissioner, Tallapoosa County, Chad Odom, Director, Lake Martin Economic Development, Jack Coltrain, Plant Manager, SL Alabama
Alexander City- Central Alabama Community College received outstanding news recently. SL Alabama, a company that produces headlights, taillights and mirrors for Hyundai and Kia, pledged $1 million dollars to the college for workforce development projects.
SL Alabama began operations in Alexander City in 2005 and has always supported the local community. SL Alabama’s new president, Kyungsoo Koo feels like SL should do even more.
“For years, we’ve given to charitable organizations, like United Way, the Sun Festival, Wildcat football and many others,” Kyungsoo Koo said.
“But as we emerge from the pandemic, we believe now is a good time to make an even greater investment in the Alexander City community.”
CACC continues to grow and expand technical programs on the Alexander City campus. This donation will help ensure that the college has the resources to educate and train an ever-changing workforce.
“I am so appreciative of the generous donation from President Koo and SL Alabama,” Jeff Lynn, president of CACC said.
“With this donation of needed funds for our Alexander City campus, we will be able to accelerate our Advanced Manufacturing education and training goals for our great manufacturing companies in our region. SL Alabama understands how important a trained workforce is to their company, and we are excited to build on our strong partnership with them. We want to continue to be the largest economic engine in our region that we serve. This donation will allow us to expand and grow our programs to fit the needs of the existing companies in our service area as well as aspirational companies that we can recruit.”
SL Alabama currently employs almost 700 at their Alexander City location.
For additional information please contact Brett Pritchard at bpritchard@cacc.edu
