University of Alaska Southeast w/Dana Cherry

Boy, I have a lot going on.

All right.

So the university has kind of stepped in and started to work on supporting the high school students with dual enrollment.

I think everybody's heard about the state that we're in and some of the programs not being available.

And so the Ketchikan Gateway Borough generously gave us a grant that we are currently utilizing for basic welding.

We have a full CNA class.

We're likely going to run a Yamaha class in the spring.

But ultimately, we don't want to always have to rely on the borough for funding just because they're going to be pulled on for so many different things.

So we're trying to find ways to be proactive.

And we have established a dual enrollment foundation fund.

That will support dual enrollment classes.

And so that's kind of the first thing I wanted to talk a little bit about.

And we have a, there'll be QR codes and things like that that'll come up on our Facebook.

I'll, at the end of this little plug, I'll give the website that people can go to donate to.

But really what we're looking for to do is to fund as many dual enrollment classes as we possibly can, as many high school students as we can.

We do have a little bit of a push for the spring.

Excuse me.

I'm getting over the cred, so.

Oh, no.

I

have a frog in my throat sometimes.

But we are – for that Yamaha class, we're looking to fund 12 students.

And that's going to come to the tune of around $10,000.

We're also looking for some additional support to fund a couple of additional basic welding students.

And so those classes cost up to $1,300 a student.