Auto makers are creating more sophisticated vehicles that require knowledge of the latest technologies used for state-of-the-art car repairs. A new two-year program from Fayetteville (N.C.) Technical Community College (FTCC) and the Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) is a collaboration between state government, private industry and education to create a curriculum that will provide the knowledgeable technicians the collision industry requires.
Clark Plucinski, executive director for the CREF, says it's no less than "a true paradigm shift. We have worked at a collaborative level to address the entire collision industry's needs. This true industry partnership will assure that graduates of the program have a higher level of job readiness. FTCC's curriculum will shape the future of education in the collision space."
Support for the program came from a number of entities. The North Carolina Business Committee for Education (NCBCE) facilitated the collaboration between FTCC and the repair industry, which allowed collision repair experts to provide substantial input during the curriculum's development. By asking the industry what they needed, the result was a program that "offers students guaranteed job readiness," explains NCBCE Executive Director Sue Breckenridge.
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