{"id":1959,"date":"2018-04-02T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2018-04-02T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T20:14:27","slug":"bemidji-pioneer-ntc-to-add-commercial-refrigeration-diploma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/02\/bemidji-pioneer-ntc-to-add-commercial-refrigeration-diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Pioneer: NTC to add commercial refrigeration diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>BEMIDJI&mdash;Administrators at Northwest Technical College plan to roll out a new diploma program next fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>College staff hope to enroll about 20 students in a new commercial refrigeration program there after meeting with regional commercial refrigeration leaders, who said they often struggle to find and retain qualified workers. The school held a formal announcement event Monday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p class=\"\">The four-semester program will include a lot of existing NTC courses, like construction safety and electrical theory. College leaders plan to hire a new instructor to teach program-specific courses, and they&rsquo;re angling for area businesses to donate old equipment for hands-on study. And Minnesota State could match the value of those donations up to $300,000, which the college would spend on newer equipment that businesses might be reluctant to part with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Beyond commercial refrigeration, NTC staff may also add a new program for aging and dementia care, and another criminal justice program that would supplement the one already in place at Bemidji State University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The new programming comes amid a broader revamp of NTC&rsquo;s priorities that aims to make it more responsive to regional workforce needs and significantly increase enrollment, which has declined over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Darrin Strosahl, NTC&rsquo;s vice president for academic affairs, has repeatedly stressed the value of a technical degree, citing research by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development that found certificate and associate&rsquo;s degree holders in northwest Minnesota saved more and owed less than their counterparts with bachelor&rsquo;s degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&ldquo;We know that if we can help people understand the value of technical education, that it&rsquo;s really good in terms of their career path,&rdquo; Strosahl said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI&mdash;Administrators at Northwest Technical College plan to roll out a new diploma program next fall. College staff hope to enroll about 20 students in a new commercial refrigeration program there after meeting with regional commercial refrigeration leaders, who said they often struggle to find and retain qualified workers. The school held a formal announcement event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}