1 00:00:00,506 --> 00:00:12,546 [ Music ] 2 00:00:13,046 --> 00:00:16,706 >> My name is Cameron Crouch and I am in the agriculture business program. 3 00:00:17,196 --> 00:00:18,026 It's a great program. 4 00:00:18,026 --> 00:00:22,716 I've had a lot of great opportunities through it being able to branch out into the field as well 5 00:00:22,716 --> 00:00:24,046 as meet with a lot of great instructors. 6 00:00:24,276 --> 00:00:27,266 There's a lot of hands on learning, there's a lot of application learning. 7 00:00:27,266 --> 00:00:28,896 So you're not just learning theories, 8 00:00:28,896 --> 00:00:31,556 you're learning how this is going to apply in the workforce. 9 00:00:32,116 --> 00:00:33,076 >> It's always kind of interesting. 10 00:00:33,076 --> 00:00:36,046 You get student reviews and they always say, well it's an easy class if you do the work. 11 00:00:37,146 --> 00:00:37,776 Okay, well. 12 00:00:37,776 --> 00:00:41,376 When you kind of think about school in general how easy is school if you do the work? 13 00:00:42,126 --> 00:00:44,746 So it's one of those things, yeah it's easy, but is it challenging? 14 00:00:44,746 --> 00:00:49,466 Sure. There is certain principles, especially in terms of economics, there's some tough concepts. 15 00:00:49,856 --> 00:00:54,756 Graduates of the program, they are graduating with a shortage of about 25,000 students. 16 00:00:54,996 --> 00:00:59,286 There's roughly 60,000 jobs available for ag business graduates 17 00:00:59,816 --> 00:01:02,426 and we're only filling about 35,000 of those jobs. 18 00:01:02,946 --> 00:01:04,616 We've got marketing, we've got sales. 19 00:01:05,036 --> 00:01:06,926 You like numbers you can be an accountant. 20 00:01:06,926 --> 00:01:08,016 You can go and be a lobbyist. 21 00:01:08,546 --> 00:01:09,906 There's a lot of government jobs. 22 00:01:10,126 --> 00:01:12,076 in terms of regulatory agencies that are available. 23 00:01:12,426 --> 00:01:14,826 And it really depends on what you have an interest or a passion in. 24 00:01:15,056 --> 00:01:19,066 >> Companies are actually coming to us already while we're going through this program, 25 00:01:19,426 --> 00:01:23,256 they want to hire us because of these skills that we're developing through this program. 26 00:01:23,416 --> 00:01:27,826 A lot of people think community college is lesser education than a university. 27 00:01:28,356 --> 00:01:30,676 I've actually found it to be maybe even a little bit better. 28 00:01:30,716 --> 00:01:34,816 I've had a lot of professors who actually come from the career field that they're teaching in. 29 00:01:35,046 --> 00:01:36,786 And so they're coming back because they want to teach and so you're getting 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,096 that better education, versus maybe at a university where your instructor is doing a lot 31 00:01:42,126 --> 00:01:44,286 of research and they're having the teachers assistant who is teaching 32 00:01:44,716 --> 00:01:46,976 versus that one on one contact with a professor. 33 00:01:47,516 --> 00:02:01,080 [ Music ]