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Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer visits with the new executive director of the Center for Business, Industry and Professional Development at COCC, John J. Graham.

John talks about his new position and why he was lured out of retirement to take it … and also dives into AI and the exciting ways he thinks it can change our lives for the better.

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This article appears in Source Weekly February 22, 2024.

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LISTEN: John J. Graham, Executive Director CBIPD At COCC 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 21, 2024

<h1>LISTEN: John J. Graham, Executive Director CBIPD At COCC 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 21, 2024</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">S</span>ource Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer visits with the new executive director of the Center for Business, Industry and Professional Development at COCC, John J. Graham. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bend_don_t_break_digital_022224.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bend_don_t_break_digital_022224.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-55340" /></a></figure> </p> <p>John talks about his new position and why he was lured out of retirement to take it ... and also dives into AI and the exciting ways he thinks it can change our lives for the better.</p> <p> <b>Listen now</b>:</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/bend-dont-break-john-j-graham-ed-cbipd-at-cocc" title="Bend Don&#x27;t Break: John J. Graham, ED, CBIPD at COCC" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Bend Don&#x27;t Break: John J. Graham, ED, CBIPD at COCC</a></div> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-john-j-graham-executive-director-cbipd-at-cocc-20684596/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=55339&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-john-j-graham-executive-director-cbipd-at-cocc-20684596/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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