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>>welcome to "inside jccc." my name is joesopcich and i'm the president here at johnson county community college. "inside jccc" providesyou with a behind the scenes look into what goes on in one of our over 20 buildings thatwe have on 234 acres here on our campus. but what's really important is what goes on behindthose walls. our faculty and staff put on the best programs possible that will ensuresuccess for our students and help them in
The College Network Resource Center, the classroom and beyond. so sit back andenjoy, and welcome to "inside jccc." >>welcome to johnson county community college.today, in this edition of "inside jccc," we'll visit the beautiful regnier center. the regniercenter, which opened in 2007, is named for vic and helen regnier, who developed housingand commercial properties in johnson county
for five decades. the victor and helen regniercharitable foundation gave jccc a challenge gift to support the construction of the newbuilding. on the first floor of the regnier center are classrooms for the college's non-creditcontinuing education programs, which provides computer training and workforce developmentfor area businesses and personal enrichment classes for county residents.>>i'm mike souder, i'm the dean of continuing education. we provide workforce developmentand personal enrichment training to the people in johnson county and actually the kansascity metro at large. in continuing education, we're different from the rest of the collegebecause we are not based on a semester schedule. we go year-round so you can come here andtake a class pretty much any time of the year
and our classes are much shorter. generallythey could be anything from a few hours to a half a day to a day. some of our certificateprograms might run a few days or a week, but that's one of the prime differences betweenus and the credit side of the college. similar to the rest of the college, we're very flexible.you can take our classes during the regular working hours. we have a lot of classes werun in the evening and we run programs on the weekends. you may have individuals whoare in the job hunt, individuals who are career changing, you have people that businessesare sending to some of our public classes. a lot of times you'll have businesses largeand small. we do a lot of work with government offices. they might be city offices, county,state, even a few of the federal offices in
the metro areas come here for training andit's across a broad expanse of different topics. they might take anything from a complex informationtechnology class to a basic supervision or finance and accounting class. while we areseparate from the credit side of the college, we work very closely together on a lot ofdifferent programs. for instance, there may be an area that has not been fully developedover on the credit side, but because we can develop it much faster and easier, 'causethey're shorter offerings, they don't have to go through the same approval process andthen we can try it here, work all the bugs out and if it goes really well then creditcould pick it up and go ahead and take it through the approval process and create anactual credit course in that area.
>>there is a solid square here.>>at the same time, it also works the other way. there's things that happen over on thecredit side where the enrollments start to dwindle in a certain area 'cause there's notquite the demand there used to be, but there are still some people that need that specificskill so they will move that over here so at the end of the life cycle, it could comeback this way and then we will offer it every so often and those people in the communitythat still need that training can come take it on the continuing ed side. some of ourmost popular programs in continuing education are those that you can get a certificate inbecause it helps especially the job seekers and because a lot of the certificates arenationally recognized. a lot of businesses
know that if they send their people here,they go through continuing ed class and they can get the certification that they've beentrained to a certain standard. the small business development center is part of continuing educationand right now they have almost i think 400 clients in the area and those clients arei think last year provided something like the 250 more jobs in the community area andabout eight million dollars in sales growth and that's a lot of tax revenue that goesinto johnson county, which is a good thing. we do adult basic education, so those studentsthat need to get a ged will come to continuing ed and that's a very successful program. wehave a college readiness program where we'll take some people who are not quite ready togo into college and we have some basic math
and english classes to support them. personalenrichment is a lot of fun. we offer everything from ballroom dancing.>>forward, then reverse. >>and fencing to painting and piano.>>b one. >>we've got a lot of stuff. it's a reallylittle gem for the community. our computer application and information technology, wehave state of the art facilities up on the second floor, several computer labs that arefully outfitted, you can learn some of the latest in the database management with oracle,the network stuff with either microsoft or cisco and we teach several programming languages.everything from c to java, javascript and visual basic, just to name a few that i knowthey have. here in continuing ed, transportation
is a growing area for us so our commercialtruck driver license program will be very popular. the inter-modal is coming in, southof johnson county is gonna have a lot of demand for truck driver training. it's a popularprogram now. and on the other extreme of that is we do driver's ed.>>you know what you did that was good was you slowed down, you anticipated a change.>>and we also have a very popular motorcycle training. a lot of folks in johnson countyget their motorcycle license through us here in the continuing ed area. in conjunctionwith credit, we do a lot of work in the technical trades area, mostly in the classroom area.particularly we help folks prepare to pass the test for like, electricians, hvac andplumbing. one of the things that is different
about our area from the credit side is wherewe draw our instructors from. most all of our instructors come from industry, they havereal-world experience, they're not actually permanent faculty here at the college andi think that helps a lot 'cause what they bring to the classroom is you know, "beenthere, done that" type of experience that i think our students appreciate. >>once thatcomes over to the line, park this like a car. >>part of our role here in continuing ed isalso in economic development and in that role we participate with a lot of the chambersand to make sure we understand what's going on in the businesses and how we can help them.one of the big factors when businesses are looking to relocate somewhere is, "what isthe availability of the skilled workforce?"
and so a lot of those economic developmentgroups within the chambers or even in kansas city will call us in to talk about what theworkforce looks like and the programs that we have to keep them skilled and ready. wetouch a lot of johnson county in the metro area. our yearly enrollment numbers around20,000 students will come through our continuing ed program. as far as the business to business,last year we worked with 70 different organizations to provide some type of workforce or personaldevelopment training. it is a big program here that we have and it can be a little intimidating,but we have a lot of really good people that work in continuing ed. we've got a great supportstaff that make sure we deliver quality programming every time.>>one, two, three, one, two, three, one. pretty
good! >>the first floor also houses the capitolfederal conference center, a full-service meeting space available to community groupsand organizations. >>my name is christy mcward and i am directorof marketing and event management here at johnson county community college. the eventspaces that we have in the regnier center are very versatile. we have different sizesand they have really multiple purpose functionality. our keystone really is our capitol federalconference center. it is 5000 square feet in total, but it can also be broken down intohalves and quads so that really makes it perfect for large events like a 300 person banquet,or smaller break out sessions for meetings
and just more intimate spaces as well. we'vealso had a few fundraising dances for our students here, and we've been known to havea little dance floor put out there, too. on the second floor of the regnier center, wehave rc270, or more commonly referred to as "the cube," and it is a smaller event spacethan the cap fed, but it is equally as versatile. we have small dinners and receptions and meetingsthere as well. it is a glass two story room bathed in light, which is why we call it thecube, because it looks like a little flash cube, but nobody knew what a flash cube wasamong our students 'cause they're much too young, so we called it the cube. we have manydifferent events day and night. it's a beautiful space and very versatile. one of our premierevent spaces on campus is the hudson auditorium.
it's located on the second floor of the nermanmuseum of contemporary art. it seats 200 people in a tiered style table setting and it isone of our most beautiful and comfortable settings for lectures and presentations.>>mr. k. first started working for as a salesman for another.>>the bodker executive conference room is another event space, very small but it isbasically a 12 person board room. we have meetings, but also smaller luncheons. we havemeals and receptions and we use it for jccc meetings quite often and for rentals for thecommunity as well. one of the most popular spaces on campus is right here where we areand that is the atrium, and the atrium is this wide-open, beautiful space that reallyjoins together the regnier center and the
nerman museum of contemporary art, and ittoo, like our other spaces is very versatile. we have meals in here, we have receptionsin here. oftentimes we will pair an event that's going on in the cap fed with a receptionor food service out here in the atrium and it really helps round out the event, giveit more space, and a really nice aesthetic as you can imagine. we also plan a lot ofevents, my team does here, and we will frequently do an event maybe over in the carlson center,it might be a fundraiser or a concert performance with a celebrity and we'll bring them overhere and welcome them to the nerman museum and the atrium and give them a big vip reception,too. we have a beautiful restaurant right here in the nerman museum and it's calledcafe tempo and it really is an upscale dining
option right here on the campus of jccc. wehave members of the community that will come here during a visit to the museum and theywill tie in a lunch and a visit to our exhibitions, but we have soups, salads, gourmet sandwichesand specials every day. it's becoming very popular and we welcome people from off-campusas well to come here anytime. our spaces are primarily used by college departments andprograms and students for student resources and activities, but we also rent our spacesto members of the community, to businesses, associations, chambers of commerce are alsovery frequent guests here, and they could have anything from a small meeting to a largebanquet or fundraiser as well. really every event comes together thanks to the cross-functionalteam that we have in place here at the college.
we have housekeeping, professional catering,our av and video teams, police department. we have it covered with every concern thatcould possibly relate to an event. we have top-notch professional staff that all workvery closely together to make sure every event comes off without a hitch and puts every client'smind at ease when they're planning an event, whether they're one of our jccc colleaguesplanning a conference, or someone from the community who's renting the space for theirevent. i think what really sets our event spaces apart from others is the vibrant campuscommunity that we have here. we are a college and we are always abuzz with activity. wehave students, we have faculty, we have visitors always roaming the campus and going from buildingto building and there is just an electricity
of energy here. it's a place of learning andlifelong experiences and i think that just gives a great energy to events that are hereon campus even if you're an external community member, you have your event here, you're justgonna really feel like a part of the community and we're very welcoming. there's no morehelpful community than jccc. there's never a stranger. if you're lost, we'll help youfind your way. we just love having visitors and we love taking good care of 'em and sothat everyone has a great experience whether they're a student, a client, a parent, orjust someone coming to cafe tempo for lunch someday. if anyone wants to find more informationabout booking an event here at the college, all they need to do is contact our schedulingoffice at 913-469-4423 or they can find us
on the website which is www.jcc.edu and searchfor event space. >>the second floor of the regnier center housesan entrepreneurship center and the small business development center, which offers businessmanagement consulting and workshops, credit degrees, and certificates in entrepreneurialstudies, and the small business resource center. >>my name is malinda bryan-smith, and i'mthe regional director at the johnson county community college kansas small business developmentcenter. the small business development center has been on campus since 1983 and it was probablyone of the first small business development centers in the state of kansas. it was pilotedby the small business administration in the 1970s and johnson county community collegewas one of the first community colleges and
probably colleges and universities in thenation to launch a small business development center. we do two things; we provide freeand confidential consulting assistance to both the aspiring entrepreneur and the existingsmall business owner. we also provide a number of workshops at nominal fees, really in fourdifferent categories: accounting, financials and taxes, marketing, strategy and leadership,and then a workshop specifically for folks wanting to start a business. we provide thewhole suite of quickbooks classes, everything from intro to intermediate, to job costingas well as payroll. we also have a cpa that comes in and teaches our irs classes and thenwe partner with the department of revenue from the state of kansas and they come overand teach workshops on sales tax for everyone
as well as specifically for construction contractors.we also do a wide variety of marketing classes. we have people on staff here who teach workshopson social media and search engine optimization. we also do a workshop on marketing plans,starting a business, and then we also have a workshop that we have a contractor comein and teach on buying a business. we also do strategic planning classes, listening toyour business class as well, that is really a quick, half-day strategic planning classand the small business owners can come in and just really have time to think about theirbusiness. some of the consulting services that we provide if somebody that's a startup would come in, normally what we work with them on is determining the feasibility. normallythey've made the decision that they can start
the business, but is the way that they wantto start the business feasible? so we walk them through that. we help them put togethertheir business plan. we don't do it for them, but we see this because we're at an educationalinstitution, this is education so we work with them to build their business plan totake to a bank or possibly to an investor. we also then follow on with them after they'vestarted their business to make sure that that start-up phase goes smoothly, and then wealways remind them as you're growing your business, you know we want to be of assistancein any way we can so we try to continue the relationship as long as we're needed. in termsof existing business owners, they might come to us for a variety of reasons. they mightbe getting ready to grow their business and
have an opportunity that they need to figureout because sometimes a business can grow too fast and go out of business because they'vegrown too fast and they didn't have the right processes and procedures in place. we mighthave a business that is struggling and they don't know why, so we might look at theirfinancials with them. we might look at their marketing strategies, maybe they need to tweakthose. when you look at the existing small business group that we have, a lot of themare in the baby boomer age and are looking at potentially selling their business or turningit over to a family member so we're really getting more involved with small businessesin terms of succession planning and helping them figure out how they want to exit thebusiness if they haven't done that already.
both start up and existing small businessowners really reflect the community. obviously there's a big portion of the population isbaby boomer age, so we see that a lot of our clients are in that age group, but becausewe're on a college campus and we also provide a lot of services to jccc students as wellas alumni and employees as well. the other program that we recently added here at johnsoncounty community college is a ptac. that's a procurement technical assistance center,and that helps small business owners sell their products or services to the federalgovernment which is another type of growth strategy. they might sell their products orservices in the private sector and now selling to the government is another opportunity forthem. we have a person on staff, jason porch,
who's with ptac, which is a national programjust like the small business development center. jason and the ptac personnel are very goodat sitting down and explaining a lot of the government lingo in laymen's terms and henot only helps them launch into that, he can help the existing business owner find outif they're properly registered with the federal government. sometimes that can make or breaka business in terms of being picked or allowed to bid on a particular job. we've seen itas a very good addition to the suite of services that we provide.>>women-owned small business. 5% of the dollars go towards women-owned small businesses.>>some of our success stories include the new york dawg pound, which is on shawnee missionparkway. it's a gourmet hot dog joint. two
gentlemen who had years of experience in therestaurant industry came in, worked with alyssa wildman. from the very beginning through start-up,i think it was just good for them to have somebody that they know they could go to thatdoesn't have a vested interest that could help them get the business launched and wecontinue to work with them today and they've been very successful. hr haven was launchedby belinda wagner during the height of the recession. that's a difficult business tolaunch in the middle of a recession is an hr consulting firm when people are not doingas much hiring but she's been hugely successful. we also partner with a lot of other economicdevelopment agencies in town to help them with events or to partner on events. eachyear we provide mentors to bizfest, which
is a youth business planning competition that'sheld in the shawnee mission school district but it's sponsored by the hispanic chamberof commerce and that's a four-day youth business planning competition. we've worked with studentservices, financial aid, and the foundation to put together three scholarships that areprovided each year that are given on a lottery basis to students who've participated in bizfest.most of us could be working in the private sector but we really like working in a communitycollege environment and the educational environment. working with small business owners, helpingthem realize their dreams, helping them fix their problems. every day is different, everybusiness is different, and you really just can't imagine how much fun it is to work here.>>my name is donna duffey. i work here at
johnson county community college and i ama professor and the department chair for the entrepreneurship program here at the college.entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, it is a mindset. it's one that actually manypeople embrace and they embrace it for, for the purpose of creating or being innovativeabout an idea that they may have. they feel that they can develop that idea into a business,a business that may have a product or a service. one of the real key things is that entrepreneurssolve problems for people through that development of a product or a service or perhaps evena process. but entrepreneurship therefore then becomes a way that people find theirway to create a life for themselves and for others. what we can do at johnson county communitycollege through the program of developing
the skills and talents to help someone bea successful entrepreneur. the entrepreneurship programs here started in 1992. a full timefaculty member in the business administration area at the time, mary beth izard. mary bethwas, was very interested in entrepreneurship, small business management. she took a sabbaticalleave and she wanted to develop specific curriculum that focused on entrepreneurship. she didthis sabbatical leave at the kauffman foundation. the kauffman foundation is clearly the leadingnational foundation supporting entrepreneurship education. so mary beth took this sabbaticalleave, and developed the first entrepreneurship courses. what we offer in terms of programming,we offer an associate of applied science degree, we offer a 34 credit hour certificate, weoffer a mini business plan certificate but
we also offer three other certificates: directsales, franchising, and family business. and an entrepreneurship classroom at any pointin time and any of the courses might have students that are right out of higher schoolall the way to students that perhaps are retired and in need of reinventing themselves, andeverything in between. the everything in betweens are certainly also very interesting. certainlystudents that are mastering a skill through other associate degree programs on campus.we also have students coming to some of our entrepreneurship classes that are dual enrolleesor they're enrolled in another institution and finding entrepreneurship here. we've hadpeople that are displaced workers that are reinventing themselves. we've had the opportunityto serve veterans through some of our entrepreneurship
courses and then we've also had persons thatare members of family businesses that are in our particular classes. so all age rangesand all different motivations and it makes for an exciting mix in the classroom. notjust from an instructional viewpoint, but certainly for the students as well.>>do with this information? >>selling it. yeah. exactly.>>the students want a sort of variety of different businesses. some have particular product ideasin mind so they want to manufacture something and then offer that for sale either throughtraditional retailers or some other distribution channel. many of them are interested in providinga service that solves a problem for others. there are also people that are interestedin opening like a shop or a restaurant. those
are a bit more of a brick-and-mortar placein space where customers might go to find that particular product or service. entrepreneurshipin the creation of small businesses is enormously important to economic vitality in a democraticnation. while there's certainly a national importance to that, there's also importanceto that whole concept locally. so as a community college, i think through the education processwe can help people pursue whatever their dream is with more background information and moreof an ability to be a sustainable business owner but very importantly a sustainable citizenwithin our community. so if you believe that education is what makes communities sustainableand certainly we do, then entrepreneurship is one of the programs that we have to offerhere at johnson county community college to
do that.>>on the third floor of the regnier center, are classrooms for computing sciences andinformation technology, interactive media, animation and game development programs, aswell as computer science, desktop publishing and computer application courses and a biotechnologylaboratory suite and classroom. >>my name is kelly gernhart, i'm the assistantdean for computer science and it programs at johnson county community college, and imanage all of the programs and computer science and it here at the college. the animationprogram at johnson county community college is focused on two main areas: entertainmentand game art design. entertainment would be using industry standard software tools tocreate animations in 2d or 3d that might be
used at an architectural firm, a tv station,or in a movie. the game art might be building environments or levels for games, 3d typesof environments using again industry standard types of tools. very closely related to theanimation program ids game development and the game development also has two main areasthat they focus on. one is more programming related and then also game level design, andgame level design relates to how the games are played, the artificial intelligence. thecomputer information systems and computer science programs really are for students thatwant to get into software development, traditional programming languages and database and thosetypes of things. the computer sciences focus mostly on theory and concepts of programming.computer information systems is more focused
on business applications of software developmentso that's more focused on "how would i learn this programming language and apply it tosolve a business problem?" the it networking program is a unique program in the kansascity area. we are a cisco academy, microsoft academy, and also we have the linus certifications.so basically those three types of areas are very important for anybody that wants to bea network administrator. you need to know operating systems for the desktop as wellas server environments. that's where we cover the windows and the linux, and then also youneed to know the infrastructure of networking devices and programming for those devicesto tie everything together, and that's where the cisco academy comes in. cisco supportsus with curriculum, certifies our faculty
members so that they can be cisco certifiedacademy instructors. we also have a testing center on the second floor where they cango take certification for the ccna and that is a requirement for many of the positionsthat they're going to go interview for. so we have a really unique situation where theycan take a curriculum that aligns with the industry standard from faculty member whoare certified by cisco, which is a very major manufacturer and supplier of equipment fornetworking. the web and digital communications area involves three programs. web technologies,interactive media and desktop publishing. web technologies is a new degree program,it's a two year associate's degree focused on programming for the web, development formobile applications and rich media applications
that you can deliver over the internet. theinteractive media program involves kind of a blend, there's a convergence of publication,journalism, broadcasting, and web delivery. interactive media deals with audio and videodevelopment of assets and delivery for those programs. we're also focusing quite a biton social media because social media's very important for most businesses now. our studentscome out with a background understanding of how important social media is. there's a rolefor them in quite a few businesses out there. desktop publishing is an evolving area. wefocus on the adobe suite of products. illustrator, indesign, photoshop are the big three, andhow to blend those together and work effectively in an environment.>>do a control a, it's gonna go wow! and it's
gonna like, throw.>>we have two new programs in the area of electronic health records. we have healthcareinformation systems, which is really tended to train people to go out into physiciansoffices or hospitals and help them set up the system, do the configuration as a transitionfrom paper records systems into electronic health records. we also have the medical informationand revenue management program which teaches more from the user approach how to use thosesystems once they're installed and configured to accurately enter data into the patient'srecord and then pull that information back out for billing purposes with insurance companies,third parties. so that's a nice complement of programs dealing with both ends of reallygrowing and rapidly growing electronic health
records field. we offer classes in a varietyof times. we have day classes, we have evening classes, some weekend. we also have quitea few classes that are completely online. we are moving to somewhat of a standard forhybrid delivery classes. that's s a very efficient mode for delivering education in that youget some face-to-face time with some faculty members which is very important to people,but it also reduces the seat time or the time that you're required to be on campus and itgives you some more flexible time that you can do the lecture material or some lab materialeven online when your schedule allows you to do that. we have excellent facilities toteach our classes. we have been in the regnier center since 2007 and have continued to updateit. every budget cycle we're adding new equipment
because it's so important in the field oftechnology to have current equipment. we have to keep up to date and the college has beenvery supportive in keeping that type of modern equipment here in the regnier center. we alsohave moved to a virtualized environment for our it networking program. this is one ofthe few types of this system in the nation that's available for our students to use,and it's very important because it is the way we see companies and industries movingtowards more virtualization so it's very important for us to have the students work in that typeof an environment. faculty were involved in designing each classroom to fit the needsin the way that they teach the material that they teach so we do spend quite a bit of timeresearching with our business and industry
partners to find out what they're using andmake sure the students have that same equipment and software available in our classrooms sothat they're getting experience with what they're going to see when they go out on theircareer. our students are very well prepared not only in the technical skills area, they'realso developed with some life skills. problem solving is something that we focus on quitea bit, communication skills, life skills for professionals. these are things that we hearfrom our employers and our business and industry partners all the time is that we need to havethe students develop in soft skills. so in addition to having those technical courseworkand practice and very technical types of areas, we also give them practice in public speakingand writing letters that they might write
in business type of an environment. gettingthem prepared to go out to the work world. we also realize that many of our studentsare not necessarily going right into a career. they might transfer to a four-year school,so we try to emphasize the importance of the general education courses to make sure theyget their math and their english and their the public speaking out of the way which aren'talways their favorite courses but i think it's very important when their cisco networkingfaculty member tells them how important it is to take that public speaking class, i thinkit really emphasizes to them that it is important and we believe that they need that as wellas preparing them for down the road that they may decide they want to get a four year degree,and then they have their options open.
>>my name is luanne wolfgram and i'm a professorin the division of science and i teach microbiology and i'm also the chair of the biotechnologyprogram. the biotechnology program at the college started about 12 years ago at therequest of the stowers institute who was building at the time and had a request for trainedtechnicians. the stowers institute is a private institution in kansas city, missouri. it wasstarted by jim stowers and his wife. both of them are survivors of cancer. the peoplethere do a lot of research on how cancer develops, trying to figure out how things change ina cell, in an individual that we see cancer developing in them later on. it's a fairlyunique program here on campus. we have a certificate where people who already have a bachelor'sdegree for instance can come and get additional
training. we've got an associate of appliedscience which is a two-year degree which will allow people to enter the field of biotechnology.we also have a associate of science degree which is a transfer program so people cancome here and get the first two years of training and then go on to another institution in thearea and finish their four year bachelor degree. we have a lot of people coming for the certificate.many of them are foreign nationals who have their degree from other countries and justneed to kind of prove themselves here in the united states. we've got a lot of people,especially non-traditional students who come to get their aas. they've been working atmcdonald's or a grocery store or a restaurant and realize that they love science and wantto get into the field and this is their way
in. and then we have some students who comehere, get their first two years under their belt, get biotechnology as kind of an emphasisand then go on and get their degree. so we've got a good mixture of all three. the coursesthat we teach here, we use kind of a combination of all the technologies that we have hereat jccc. some of our introductory courses are taught online. some of them are taughtonline and then have a lab. the methods course and the microbiology courses are taught hereon campus and have a lot of laboratory time which is important for someone going intothe field because that's what they're going to do with their lives, so they spend a lotof time here in the lab getting a lot of hands-on training which helps them when they go toget a career in the field.
>>and then that works.>>and just for a few seconds? >>just for a few seconds, yeah.>>ok. >>we're very lucky with our facilities. whenthe regnier center was being built, the state of kansas graciously gave us a $1.5 milliongrant to build a center of excellence and workforce development. we have two primarylabs, one which is a lab for teaching basic science labs, especially cellular molecularbiology and genetics. the lab we're in right now is more of the advanced laboratory wherewe teach more advanced biotechnology methods and techniques. we were fortunate to get aclassroom right next door so i can lecture a little bit and then if we have a particulartechnique that's gonna take a little bit more
than the 3 hour time slot that we have, wecan come in here, start the lab, and go back and forth between the two rooms and make surethat the lab work gets done but they also get the theory that they need in the classroom.some of the equipment that we have and some of the additional facilities we have for mentorand a bioreactor which are pieces of equipment used to grow either bacterial cells or animalcells, especially important in vaccine development. we do have a dna sequencer. unfortunatelyit's a little antiquated at this point in time because the science has moved along soquickly. we also have a variety of centrifuges and methodologies for looking at dna and workingwith dna and proteins and other things like that. one of the most important things thata student learns here that's going to go into
the industry, especially some of our animalhealth companies that we have in the area, is aseptic technique and that's how to worksafely with either microorganisms or animal cells or something, so that they can helpa company, produce a vaccine for a company, do it safely and do it so that the vaccinedoesn't get contaminated so they don't cost their employer a lot of money. some of thosetechniques are very important to our companies in the area. with the types of techniques,with the equipment that we train students with, we have to keep the class size fairlysmall because the expenses of the equipment, the expense of the materials that go withthe equipment. if we had large classes, we wouldn't be able to afford to run the classesand so, and it's nice because i'm the only
one in the lab and i can spend a lot of timewith my students. i get to know my students fairly well and so when they're ready to gointo the field, i can hopefully place them in a site where i think they're going to dowell and succeed. >>one would be at 65, one would be at 72.>>i think they're fairly prepared to do anything in the science field. we've had students gointo small companies where they perform various techniques there. some have gone into researchlabs like the stowers institute. some have gone into some of the clinical labs. we havea lot of companies here in the area that do clinical testing and then the lab work hasto be done for those individuals who do that, so we've got some students in there. we'vegot some large international companies in
the area, again, primarily in animal health,so the students go into those companies. and then we also have some very successful studentswho go on like i said, get their bachelor's degree and go on from there.>>and you have to account for both characters. >>when this lab was built, i was asked tobuild a state of the art lab. i think it's still pretty close to that at least for gettingstudents into the science field and giving them the hands-on that a lot of other institutionsjust can't give them. i love being with my students, getting to know them, which helpsme to know who they are, know when they're going for a job at the end of the program,where i can place them, where they'll be the most successful so that they can support theirfamilies because in most cases i'm dealing
with either young parents or single parentsand most of why they are here is to support their families and a lot of them become friendsafter they leave here and that's the best part of the job is being with my students.>>the regnier center at jccc is a busy place. i hope you'll come to campus and see for yourselves.
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