Monroe Community College: Producing the 21st Century Worker

The Cohort. (Effective.) The Cohort-based instructional mod- el is designed to produce a greater supply of workers with specific skill sets. Students begin and end their training as a group, adhering to a pre-designed curriculum. Upon completion, they are then better prepared to take immediate employment in their field of study. For exam- ple, in its first year, the Accelerated Precision Tooling Certificate program has achieved a 75 percent completion rate for two cohorts of grad- uates and a 90 percent job placement rate. A third cohort is presently in progress with a fourth planned to begin in spring 2015.