Michigan businesses are facing a crucial shortage of skilled workers with strong academic and technical skills and the grants also will provide an incentive for the creation of business and education partnerships to propose solutions. Competency-based curricula require students to demonstrate competence, as defined in written statements that incorporate clearly stated criteria and standards of performance by business and industry. The business and education partnerships, and the new curricula that these grants will support, will help us reach that goal and keep Michigan's economy booming. The College has been working with Acheson Colloids Company of Port Huron on the project.
Gas chromatography is the analysis of chemicals and chemical products.
Representatives of Acheson will work closely with SC4 to develop a course that integrates mathematics, reading and study skills with the specific technical needs of the position. The initial course offering for Acheson employees is anticipated for spring of 2001. At the end of this course, ACT Work Keys assessments will be administered for learning outcome evaluation. The course will then be available for public offering. Gas chromatographer skills are also used by quality assurance jobs in the plastics industry.