SacBee: More people head back to school for job training
A great piece in today's SacBee on the fact that community colleges are an integral part of any viable economic recovery plan…
Students are demanding more job training at large community colleges and on small satellite campuses in rural communities.
"I think it's a fair statement that we're seeing more students looking for job training," said Kurt Heisinger, dean at the Tahoe-Truckee campus of Sierra College. "When the economy starts to go south, students come out and retool and retrain … to get into the work force."
The Mountain Mechatronics program is popular at the 600-student Truckee campus. Unique to the center, it offers the technical training needed to work in the ski, golf, hospitality and public utility industries.
The program's coordinator, Marshall Lewis, once the general manager of a ski resort, says that training local residents for local jobs is important.
