Demand is so high employers such as LazyBoy, TDIC Robotics, Irvin Automotive-Takata and Herman Miller coax educators for more interns. A psychology class does joint research with Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the Salk Institute using genetically altered mice to understand more about human hearing loss. Students enrolled in the associate courses have five waiting employers upon graduation. Many of the courses are offered on-site at the hospital. Nearly 1.4 million registered nurses will be needed by 2010, yet projections indicate only 656,000 nurses will be available, so job prospects are excellent.
Community colleges offer a host of certificate programs and associate degrees that lead to jobs.
Schoolcraft College, Livonia, for example, has four master chefs teaching in its culinary arts program. They also provide courses in firefighting and police detail. Macomb Community College offers a rigorous graphic design curriculum. She chose to go to Kettering University in Flint because of its school-work cooperative educational program. My courses are designed around my job.