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- When I speak to the parents,
and sometimes to the students,
the one thing I wanna let them know is
this is not an easy program.
And it's not an easy industry to work in.
However, the rewards can be great.
And there's a lot of opportunity.
We get the gamut of students.
The manufacturer would love us to have
hardened, seasoned, people who
grew up working on vehicles,
but that's not the reality.
We have a lot of inner city students.
We have a lot of students
that don't know a wrench
from a screwdriver,
and sometimes they make
for the best technicians,
they really do.
Each manufacturer supports us
with the latest diagnostic equipment,
with vehicles, with parts.
They want our students to
have the latest and greatest
so they can experience it.
- To really be able to see industry needs
and really preparing that pipeline,
the impact is an ever-evolving curriculum,
where technology moves so rapidly,
the students have to be nimble and quick
to adapt to all of the curricular changes.
- Each of the manufacturers
has certain criteria for who gets hired.
They have to be certified
in the manufacturer
in the disciplines that
they're going to teach.
You just don't want somebody
teaching generic things,
we want to specialize
and that's what we do.
We take feedback from the dealers,
through advisory boards,
through the manufacturer,
through what's going on in the dealership
and our curriculum is
designed to address that,
so our students are trained
to fix what's happening right now.
- To obtain an associates degree
for under $20,000 is unheard of.
To earn money while attending school
is certainly not a new
concept experiential learning,
but with ours, student
can earn up to $20,000
and virtually graduate, loan free,
with a career and a higher paying job
as they walk right out of MassBay.
- If they do everything correctly,
they come out at a level of certification
that would take a normal
employee five, six years,
and tens of thousands of dollars
to accomplish in a dealership.
- MassBay is on the forefront
of the transportation industry.
We try and anticipate the needs
and then plan accordingly.
So MassBay I s very fluid in
the sense of program development
and I really think that sets it apart.
The next closest BMW program is in Ohio.
The next closest Toyota
program is in New Hampshire.
We currently have students coming from
as far away as New York
and that's really the
product speaking for itself.
- There's nothing that is more satisfying
than when I walk into a dealership
and I'm greeted by three,
four, half dozen students
as I walk through,
- "Hey, Mr B, how's it going?
"Look at me, I'm doing great,
you know, it's awesome.
"I can do something with my hands.
"I'm good at this.
"I have a career."
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