Delgado Community College

My brother, he was, and my girlfriend, she was also going to UNO at the time.

My brother, he was going to Delgado Community College.

And we also had to work on the house getting rebuilt, 'cause the house was in New Orleans.

So, um, mind you, this happened between I was, like, the age of 17 and, and like 19, all this moving around and working, trying to get our stuff together.

Welcome back, folks.

Um, we are joined f- uh, by some folks from Delgado Community College, and you've heard me talk about Delgado a lot, uh, with a lot of guests that we have about the importance of the community college system to our economy, the role that they play, kind of this, um, re-engineering of our thought process of four-year, uh, universities versus the community college university and the role that they play in, in filling the trades, how important that is.

You know, the other day I was talking about, um, uh, the mechanics.

I was talking with a good friend of mine, uh, that, that has a dealership, and he was telling me that the mechanics that he employs are making between $150,000 and $175,000 a year.

And I'm like, "What? Are, are you kidding me?" And he says, "And I have difficulty getting people to come to work." I said, "And they're working in air-conditioned garage?" "Yes." And I was like, "This is absolutely unbelievable." Well, that story can be told over and over and over again.

It's not unique to just that one little silo, and that's what I love about what Delgado Community College does, the relationship that I've had with the school that has developed and, and I learn more about it each and every day.

And I'm sure I'm gonna learn some today because we have Elizabeth Duett, the Dean of the School of Business at Delgado, as well as Chef Tasheena Butler, who is the Culinary and Hospitality Enrollment Coordinator, and also an adjunct instructor and an alumnus of the program, uh, which is al- I lo- I love when that happens, when the alumni come back and they start teaching, uh, because they b- That's the, I think, uh, the truest sense of believing in the mission and the vision of the school, right? And, and having altered their, their lives.

So ladies, with that, welcome to the show.

Welcome back, folks.

Um, we are joined ph- uh, by some folks from Delgado Community College, and you've heard me talk about Delgado a lot, uh, with a lot of guests that we have about the importance of the community college system to our economy, the role that they play, kind of this, um, re-engineering of our thought process of four-year, uh, universities versus the community college university and the role that they play in f- in filling the trades, how important that is.

You know, the other day I was talking about, um, uh, the mechanics.

I was talking with a good friend of mine, uh, that, that has a dealership, and he was telling me that the mechanics that he employs are making between 150 and $175,000 a year.

And I'm like, "What? Are, are you kidding me?" And he says, "And I have difficulty getting people to come to work." I said, "And they're working in air-conditioned garage?" "Yes." And I was like, "This is absolutely unbelievable." Well, that story can be told over, and over, and over again.

It's not unique to just that one little silo, and that's what I love about what Delgado Community College does, the relationship that I've had with the school that has developed and, and I learn more about it each and every day.

And I'm sure I'm gonna learn some today, because we have Elizabeth Duett, the Dean of the School of Business at Delgado, as well as Chef Tasheena Butler, who is the Culinary and Hospitality Enrollment Coordinator, and also an adjunct instructor and an alumnus of the program, uh, which is al- I lo- I love when that happens, when the alumni come back and they start teaching, uh, because they b- That's the, I think, uh, the truest sense of believing in the mission and the vision of the school, right, and, and having altered their, their lives.

So ladies, with that, welcome to the show.

Delgado joins us, Elizabeth Duwe, uh, Dean of the School of Business at Delgado, as well as Chef Tasheena Butler, the, uh, Culinary and Hospitality Enrollment Coordinator and Adjunct Instructor in the Culinary Arts program there.

We'll talk about what's happening in that program, and we'll also talk about what's happening in the business school, and the opportunities for young folks in attending Delgado Community College, the second-largest higher ed, um, organization in the state of Louisiana.

Most people don't know that.

Recently, the, uh, Supreme Court, uh, ruled, um, to not take up a case relative to the Wisner Trust.

Dr. Larissa Littleton-Style.

Yep, Ph.D., Chancellor Delgado Community College.

I'm happy to see y'all are doing the right thing in Baton Rouge.

So she is one of the three finalists.