At MTI, it’s important that we prepare our students with the skills required for entry-level employment in their chosen trade professions. With the help of the Program Advisory Committee (PAC), MTI keeps our curriculum relevant and up to date to ensure we are doing everything we can to help students be prepared as future employees within skilled trades in demand.
There are multiple PACs to represent MTI’s programs, including medical assisting, dental assisting, welding, HVAC, cosmetology, and truck driving. Within each PAC, the members represent a wide variety of positions within an industry, such as hospital workers, salon owners, welding professionals, dental assistants, medical coders, HR team members and recruiters.
PAC members visit the classrooms, labs, welding shops, etc. to see where our students are being trained. These professionals provide feedback on our curriculum and facility, in order to ensure we are helping to meet employers’ needs. The Program Advisory Committee shares the most up-to-date practices and techniques they feel students should learn in order to become more employable.
Our PAC members play a vital role in helping to shape our students for success by providing input, expertise, and feedback on our hands-on training programs.
Here鈥檚 what a few of our PAC members have to say about their experience:
鈥淚鈥檝e been a member of PAC for about two years now, I have seen many changes in the curriculum鈥攖hey鈥檙e changing externships, they鈥檙e changing testing, they鈥檙e changing everything so they can better help the student get to where they need to be.鈥�听Noah Cisco, Recruiter, Memorial Medical Center
鈥淚 think the relationship works both ways. I think it鈥檚 a school that has a very good curriculum, passionate instructors, and they do a good job of molding the students.鈥�听Rocky Murry, Welding Management Technician, Napheid Manufacturing Co.
鈥淭he only way to change things and to get better stylists and to get people more prepared for being a good stylist is to start here. This is your foundation.鈥�听Sherry Pennington, Cosmetologist, Blade鈥檚 Fifth Avenue Hair Sculpture
鈥淲hen it鈥檚 about their curriculum, or about things we want them to make sure they鈥檙e addressing or teaching the students鈥t鈥檚 almost instantaneous I feel. We leave, and I鈥檓 like, 鈥極kay, they鈥檙e going to start doing that.鈥� It鈥檚 pretty great.鈥�听Maggie Massey, Human Resource Associate, SIU School of Medicine.
鈥淚 think the biggest thing in our industry is education. Being in management, I get to see what the school has available and what they鈥檙e offering, because that鈥檚 going to play a role in my salon.鈥�听Kari Tinsley, Salon Manager, JCP Salon
鈥淚 feel like our opinion matters. To come in, and know that your input is needed, wanted and utilized鈥ou can essentially build your own tech, not at your expense.鈥�听Tim May, Operations Manager, Comfortech Heating & Air Conditioning