The area the county needs the most help in is attracting talent in the high-tech area. Every single company here is desperate. The chamber of commerce president says, 'I'd rather have more jobs than people,' but the CEOs don't feel that way. We were never really a trade school. We were brought up with business, technology, and other programs.
Any time there's an old-line trade school still open, it brings down the entire system.
Only one third of technical institutions are accredited to give two-year degrees. The businesses all say that they don't really care about what degree you have or where you went to school but that you can come in and do the job. Whatever we teach in skills is going to be obsolete in two years, so students will be back. We have a higher placement rate than graduation rate. College models are based on graduation rates.