MDCC welcomes new Capps Center leader

Apr 18, 2016

Mississippi Delta Community College is excited to welcome its new Vice President of Workforce Todd Donald to the Trojan family. The Alabama native, who will be housed in the MDCC Charles W. Capps Jr. Technology Center, touts an impressive resume holding 26 years of experience in leadership, budget management, recruitment, curriculum development, workforce training, structural pipefitting, structural pipe welding and production and cost monitoring.

He is eager to get his feet wet serving the Delta region and says he plans to first reach out to current businesses and satisfy their needs to help them succeed and grow. He then looks forward to expanding resources.

“We have to satisfy the skill level the existing businesses are expecting, so we have to get that done first,” says Donald.

Donald also wants to focus on developing the skills of the rural population by providing more training opportunities.

“One of the ideas I have in mind for some of the rural communities is possibly setting up remote craft training,” he says.

“So whether people have to travel to Greenville or Louisiana or Texas to find work, they’ll bring that money back to the community.”

Donald and his wife Ashley have been married for over 10 years and have four children, Megan, 23, Nathan, 18, Hailey, 8, and 5-year-old Kaelyn.

The Capps Center is a division of MDCC located in Indianola that provides customized training, education and skills improvement to new and existing businesses and industries within the Mississippi Delta service area.

The Capps Center's 30,000 square feet physical plant houses an office wing, a seminar room, food preparation area, and four high bay areas that occupy a total of 8,000 square feet of training space for mechanical, electrical, process and assembly skills. Classroom space, three computer labs, and a distance-learning lab complete the accommodations available in the Capps Center.