Additional Information
The college undertook a program revitalization process focusing on its existing Construction, Drafting, and Agricultural Industrial Technology programs and determined that the existing Agricultural Industrial Technology certificate program was not serving the students or local employers in the region. Changes were proposed to create a new degree and certificate that would shed the agriculture mechanics past of the existing certificate and focus on the employment needs of manufacturing, fabrication, and maintenance and facilities engineering. With that goal, instructors, a CTE counselor, and the advisory committee developed the proposed degree and certificate programs which were first approved in concept by the Revitalization Committee. The degree and certificate programs were more fully developed and approved by the Curriculum Committee and the Board of Trustees as meeting both the state curricular requirements as well as the mission, vision, and goals of Hartnell College.
List of similar programs at other colleges in the service area which may be impacted, including the name of the college, the name of the program that may be impacted, the name of the person the submitter contacted and the outcome of that contact.
n/a: Neither of the colleges in the Santa Cruz-Monterey subregion, Monterey Peninsula College and Cabrillo College, have programs in Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Technology, or Machining Technology. In addition, neither Gavilan College to the north nor Cuesta College to the south have such programs.