(Beaver Dam) Moraine Park Technical College sees enrollment from several different areas, but especially from high schools. While the college services 14,000 students annually, Vice President of Teaching and learning Doug Hamm says that enrollment from high school students is on the rise.
“That’s one of our biggest areas of growth,” says Hamm. “And our K-12 department, which is also part of the teaching and learning a rea, really reaching out and working with our 28 local high schools, eight of which are in Dodge County.”
Hamm says the goal of working with the high schools is to get the word out about college and explain what it is all about. He adds that the college provided $521,000 of academic college credit throughout Dodge County.
“In Beaver Dam alone, that was about $242,000,” Hamm says. “So, you know, those are savings in households that are perhaps listening right now. Just to see, you know, those students to look at promising careers in the trade, promising careers in pre-professional programs.”
Hamm says he can guarantee that any of the nurses that have served the community in the healthcare industry have come through those programs.
