{"id":2056,"date":"2019-03-24T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2019-03-25T23:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T20:09:57","slug":"governor-whitmer-visits-henry-ford-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/governor-whitmer-visits-henry-ford-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Whitmer visits Henry Ford College"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Governor Gretchen Whitmer has visited Dearborn\u2019s Henry Ford College as a part of her \u201cHome for Opportunity\u201d, an ongoing effort to close the skilled trades gap in Michigan.
\nDuring the visit, on March 14, Whitmer toured HFC\u2019s School of Health and Human Services (HHS) Surgical Technology lab and HFC\u2019s automotive technology ASSET lab.
\nThe governor witnessed students completing hands-on work to demonstrate how HFC programs prepare graduates to meet Michigan\u2019s needs in various skilled trades fields. Afterwards, she spoke to HFC students about their career goals.
\n\u201cWe have a skills gap here in Michigan and these programs are incredibly important to strengthening the economy and we all benefit when we do that,\u201d said Whitmer.
\nWhitmer has been visiting community colleges throughout the state since she proposed the Michigan Opportunity Scholarship to provide tuition-free community college education to Michigan residents at her State of the State Address in February.<\/p>\n

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\nThere is a strong correlation between household income and education levels. Highly educated states boast some of the highest per-capita incomes in the country. Michigan currently ranks 36th for post-secondary educational attainment (the number of residents with a high-quality industrial certificate, associate degree or higher) and 34th for household income.\u201d
\nThe Michigan Opportunity Scholarship would address the state\u2019s higher education shortfall by enabling more Michigan adults to complete a post-secondary degree. The scholarship will play a key role in helping Michigan reach the governor\u2019s post-secondary attainment goal of 60 percent by 2030.
\nThe governor stressed the need for higher education, saying that the state once boasted the \u201cbest skilled workforce\u201d when it invested more in colleges and universities.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s something that is our important to our economic future and I want to keep working toward that,\u201d said Whitmer. \u201cI\u2019m working my tail off to make sure (the legislature passes) a budget that actually fixes the roads, closes the skills trades gap, cleans up drinking water, and makes sure that our children in our P-12 schools are in the top 10 in our country again.\u201d
\nHFC has partnerships with the Talent and Economic Development Department of Michigan (TED), DTE Energy, Michigan Works!, several automotive companies, and many others.
\nHFC has also partnered with area high schools to provide Career and Technical Education programs. In addition, HFC has transfer agreements with the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Eastern Michigan University, Madonna University, Siena Heights University, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, among others.<\/p>\n

\u2018Very proud\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nHFC President Russell Kavalhuna said the governor was pleased with the college\u2019s facilities and students.
\n\u201cIt was an honor to have Governor Whitmer visit Henry Ford College. She got to see firsthand some of the ways in which HFC is a gateway to top-quality higher education and rewarding careers, whether our graduates go directly into the workforce or transfer to a four-year educational institution,\u201d Kavalhuna said.
\n\u201cShe told me that she was impressed with our state-of-the-art facilities and, more importantly, the work our students are doing at the College. That makes me very proud.\u201d
\nOther community leaders joined Whitmer on her tour of HFC included members of the HFC Board of Trustees, Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko, Henry Ford III, and others.
\n\u201cGovernor Whitmer\u2019s goals and our goals here at the College are very similar in closing the skilled trades gap,\u201d said Kavalhuna. \u201cHenry Ford College serves a niche in this community and this city, the birthplace of Ford Motor Co. and the automotive industry. In fact, Wayne County is one of the top 40 counties in the United States with the largest increase in manufacturing employment, and we are proud to play a role in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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