"Moraine Park is looking forward to the next
100 years, keeping student achievement and continuous improvement at the forefront as we move into a new
centennial." –SHIELA RUHLAND, president of Moraine Park Technical College
they used to call vocational education,"
Foy says. "They saw that then, and it's still our core business and our main strength today.
"
The founders of the technical college system in Wisconsin may have envisioned that their mission would remain the same while the type of classes offered would change. The girls shown above study in an early-1900s classroom at what is now FVTC.
old the student body would become, Foy says. "But again, they always had programs for displaced workers." Smits says it's hard to imagine
They might not have anticipated how
we would be like the Jetsons right now,
what the future would have looked like in 1912. "When I was growing up, I thought
my little hovercraſt. But when we talk about the philosophy and the relevance to the community, I think yeah, they probably did have it figured out to some degree.
" Smits says. "I'm still waiting for A hundred years from "
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