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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing

They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships

 

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Employers offer various recommendations for improving MnSCU manufacturing programs, such as standardizing program and occupation titles, increasing support for community colleges, and training professors on new technology.

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"Employer 1: Post-secondary programs can be very confusing for students and families even just from a language perspective. If they want to go into a certain career, there's a different name for that program at the secondary level. And then they're in a different class or department at the post-secondary level. There's no consistency. So, you might be in the technical education program and do welding and fabrication. Or, you might have a power and energy and transportation class, and then eventually you graduate and you're going to a—well, what would be the program? A mechatronics program at the post-secondary? And then eventually you're going to be a system maintenance person? It gets real confusing.

Question: So, standardize the titles?

Employer 1: Yeah. I don't know how you do that. But maybe aligning—paying more attention to the occupation versus the name of the degree. It's a very confusing system in which to try to maneuver your child or yourself as a student.

Employer 2: It used to be really simple, so there's no reason why we can't get back to the simple.

Employer 1: In manufacturing, it's probably much more confusing than other fields."		 Southwest
"You know, thinking way back to when I went to school, we had electronics. And, yes, we had other areas—some of the other liberal arts—and, geez, at the time, I really didn't care for those. But when you get out there, yeah, you need supervisory training. You need some of that artistic stuff. So, yeah, there's a few things there I could have really used lately. Some of those things that maybe make it a more well-rounded education." Southwest