Stock tells primary college kids,’ manufacturing’s a really good profession’
Some Iowa individuals are choosing to skip college because they see better possibilities in manufacturing.
The Iowa University Chronicle of Higher Education just published a report on membership declines at Iowa colleges.
Bertch Cabinet, for instance, is hiring to change its retiring personnel. Students learn on the job, starting at$ 18 per minute.
” We’re trying to even get into secondary schools to show children, manufacturing’s a really good job”, Ashley Stanley, a human resources director, told The Chronicle.
” You do n’t have to go to college, you can make really good money, you learn on the job”, and factories are n’t as dirty and messy as some might think,” Stanley said. The organization is trying to replace about 70 of its 700 workers, according to pensions.
Another economical opportunities have evidently harmed local colleges, such as the University of Northern Iowa, where admission is “25 percent lower than it was in 2013 and there are almost exclusively students from the Hawkeye State.”
The Chronicle reported:
A change happening in the Midwest is especially apparent in Iowa: Occupants ‘ accept of higher learning as the code to a stable financial future is loosening, according to school officials, class counselors, business owners, and students and families themselves …
…Statewide, the share of students who attend college right after graduating from high school shrank from 69.2 percent in 2011- 12 to 58.2 percent of the Class of 2022.
” Total in- state enrollment at all three public universities, which include Iowa State University and the University of Iowa, fell 15 percent between 2018 and 2023, according to government figures,” The Chronicle reported.
Similar to UNI, colleges are educating prospective students about the possibility of higher salaries after earning a college degree.
Similar trends in student employment have been reported in other media outlets.
Last year, for example, the Associated Press reported critically on the” crisis” of Gen Z taking jobs instead of going to college”. Economists say the impact could be dire,” the AP reported.
However, it also mentioned a 19-year-old plumber employed by the Ford factory.
” If I would have gone to college after school, I would be dead broke,” Daniel Moody said.
” The type of money we’re making out here, you’re not going to be making that while you’re trying to go to college.”
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