BizTimes: What’s your company philosophy? What units it aside?
Vicki J. Martin: “Milwaukee Space Technical School is a complete and open entry group and technical faculty that serves college students in Milwaukee, Ozaukee and components of Washington and Waukesha counties. We’re the biggest and most various two-year faculty in Wisconsin, and we’re dedicated to creating and sustaining a tradition of inclusion the place everybody feels valued, revered, welcomed and appreciated. And that’s mirrored via our 180+ packages, 56% college students of shade, and 76% of our graduates work within the MATC District.”
BizTimes: What do you see as your most vital accountability to your prospects?
Martin: “Our highest precedence is to offer anybody who desires a certification, diploma or diploma entry to high-quality packages and sources that can assist them succeed and obtain their objectives. We’re dedicated to providing in-demand packages that provide a pathway to family-sustaining wages.”
BizTimes: Does your organization have any new merchandise, providers to announce?
Martin: “Microcredentialing and badges to fulfill pupil demand and employer wants primarily based on competencies required within the workforce. We’re sharpening the concentrate on our shorter-term credential packages – technical diplomas that prepare college students in a yr or much less and get them into the workforce as quick as potential. We’re additionally working to broaden our bilingual providers to turn into a federally-recognized Hispanic-Serving Establishment.
Now we have obtained beneficiant and historic help for this effort via the Ellen and Joe Checota MATC Scholarship Program which, when mixed with donations that shall be matched two-to-one, creates a $7.5 million scholarship fund. It’s the faculty’s first-ever full-ride scholarship and the biggest within the 110-year historical past of MATC.”
BizTimes: What’s completely different in greater training in the present day than if you began your profession?
Martin: “We’re being sought out as a first-choice faculty greater than ever earlier than. We proceed to see a rise within the range of our college students, college and employees that displays the group we serve. Additionally, our responsiveness to the native labor market is way more entrance and heart in the present day. College students and employers recognize how we successfully and rapidly present high-quality coaching and instruction that prepares college students for a well-paying, family-sustaining profession.”
BizTimes: What alternatives/challenges do you see on the horizon to your trade?
Martin: “Now we have some actual alternatives to develop our enrollment via our twin enrollment/twin credit score packages, the place highschool college students can earn faculty credit score and credentials.
We proceed to work with our enterprise and trade companions to make sure we offer speedy, related workforce coaching to reskill or upskill. In our healthcare apprenticeship, staff are studying whereas working and incomes. Challenges shall be to recruit and retain prime expertise for our college, administration and employees, and being agile, adaptive and efficient in managing modifications in know-how corresponding to synthetic intelligence.”
700 W State St • Milwaukee, WI 53233
(414) 297-6282 • matc.edu
