Jump Starting Student Careers With CTE Programs

Community college is often viewed as a stepping stone to higher education, but it can also act as a direct path into the workforce. STLCC offers a variety of Career & Technical Education programs (CTE) to get students ready to work in many a myriad of fields, from cooking to coding, a way that’s quick and cost effective.

Information Systems & Technology

Cisco Networking Academy: CCNACS

This program covers comprehensive networking concepts, from network applications to the protocols and services provided to those applications by the lower layers of the network.

Computer Applications - CS

This certificate is designed for individuals who are interested in learning a range of end-user applications for personal computers, It prepares the graduate to employ the functions of personal computers that are generally in use in offices today.

Cybersecurity - AAS, CP

The program prepares you for entrylevel information assurance/security technician positions that support planning, implementing, upgrading and monitoring security measures that protect computer networks and information systems.

Database Developer - CP

This program is designed for individuals who are interested in developing skills to qualify for positions as database application developers, database analysts, or database administrators.

Network Engineering - AAS, CP

This program provides students with an accelerated career pathway, stackable certificates and programs and industry-recognized credentials. With this network engineering degree, students will be prepared for apprentice-level networking positions.

Healthcare

Clinical Coding - CP

This program prepares students for entry-level positions as clinical code practitioners. Students will learn how to classify medical data from patient records, generally in a hospital setting.

Clinical Laboratory Technology - AAS

This program prepares students for entry-level positions as clinical laboratory technicians. Through classroom and practical experience in hospital and clinical laboratories, students learn to perform qualitative, quantitative and analytic testing in microbiology, hematology, immunohematology, clinical chemistry, serology, immunology and urinalysis.

Dental Hygiene - AAS

This program is a 2-year, full time program that begins each fall and is designed to prepare students for licensure and employment in the State of Missouri. The program includes a general education component as well as a concentration in dental hygiene.

Health Information ManagementAAS

This program provides students with the technical skills and knowledge required to provide reliable and valid information essential to the healthcare industry. Graduates are specialists working with health information systems, managing medical records, and coding information for reimbursement and research.

Other

Baking and Pastry Arts - AAS

This program will allow students to gain the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to become a successful pastry professional. Concepts of baking theory and nutrition; bread, rolls, and bakeries; production pastry techniques; and cake production and decoration will lay the foundation for essential pastryrelated skills.

Criminal Justice - AAS, CP

Students who enroll in this Criminal Justice: Law Enforcement program will be prepared for entrylevel employment in the criminal justice system. The program includes general education courses as well as concentrated college level coursework in law enforcement and criminal justice.

Culinary Arts - AAS

The culinary arts program is designed to meet current and future needs for training food service and food service managerial persons to assume leadership roles in the industry. The curriculum covers food preparation, production, table service and culinary management.

Horticulture - AAS, CP

Students learn both the science and the art of horticulture through a combination of classroom theory with laboratory practice and on-thejob training. Courses in soils, plant diseases, turfgrass management and cooperative horticulture are integral parts of the program.

Types of Certificates/Degrees include:

AAS - Associate in Applied Science

CP - Certificate of Proficiency

CS- Certificate of Specialization

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Mike Pence’s Book Is Hot Garbage

JACOB POLITTE MANAGING EDITOR

Mike Pence has always had a strange personality, and that doesn’t exclusively revolve around his religious nature.

In “So Help Me God” Pence doesn’t tell the reader anything that they don’t already know aside from some personal anecdotes. No one cares about that. The real meat of the interest surrounding the memoir concerns his politics, and specifically his Vice Presidency under Donald Trump.

The beginnings of his political career and through the end of his tenure as the governor of Indiana are admittedly interesting, but it’s after Pence’s acension to the Vice Presidency where the book becomes his own personal coping mechanism, an attempt to reframe certain events in a better light, especially when it comes to the perception of the words and actions of his boss. While he openly and substantially criticizes Trump, he also stops short of fully condemning his behavior. He leaves large portions of information that doesn’t make him look good out of his narrative. Perhaps he thinks that’s better than lying.

To his credit, he doesn’t let Donald Trump off the hook for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, but he also doesn’t go nearly far enough to condemn him. Pence’s account of the Jan. 6 insurrection feels very sanitized and detached from the actual danger of the incident. The incident, and Pence’s reaction to it, is a part of the literal promotion for “So Help Me God” on the book’s back cover, but while Pence gives his personal perspective of what went down, there is no new information, just a different take on regurgitated information instead.

“So Help Me God” will appeal to the less extreme parts of the Republican base, who may see it as some sort of victory lap for a Vice President put in an impossible position. But for most others, it’s just a complete waste of time.