NEEDED MATH PROJECT
It's Complicated: Help Us Shine a Light on our Questions & Trends! During our bimonthly team meetings, we continue to revisit the questions and discuss the trends that we observed during our site visits. We hope to provide some answers to these questions by the end of our project, but we acknowledge that it may not be possible to answer them to everyone’s satisfaction. Indeed, as the manufacturing sector changes and becomes more automated, so too will the role of the technician evolve. As we have heard during some of our site visits that low-level math skills have been engineered out of tasks and into tools. In certain circumstances if a technician encounters a situation where math is needed they need to consult with a company engineer. In addition, we have learned from our site visits that especially in a tight labor market, high school graduates are very appealing to industry and employers are willing to teach them that skills needed. So we ask the questions: •
What is a technician?
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Does a technician need a two-year community college degree?
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What does a two-year community college technician do?
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How can community colleges do things better?
If you would like to add your thoughts to our mix, please click on the link below to send your responses to:
Michael.Hacker@hofstra.edu.
January 2023
Thank you to all our 259 Pilot Test Takers! We have preliminary data and will continue to analyze the data until it is Survey Ready. We are sending our survey to 5,000 technicians, CC technical educators, and CC math faculty. If you are interested in being one of our 5,000 survey takers, please email: Michael Hacker@ hofstra.edu