The federal government is working with Vermont's Champlain College to provide online educational and training opportunities to millions of federal civilian employees and their dependents.
The Burlington-based college announced Monday a partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which provides training and other services for about 2 million federal employees.
It is the 57th alliance the college has made with public and private employers to provide workers with "career-relevant educational programming."
Sydney Smith-Heimbrock of the Office of Personnel Management says the partnership is the second of what is expected to be a number of partnerships with colleges and universities to help the government meet its need for trained employees.
Champlain is offering federal employees and their families a 70 percent discount for online courses that can be used to increase training for specific skills or accumulate credit toward online college undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
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