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>> My name is Cameron Crouch and I am
in the agriculture business program.

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It's a great program.

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I've had a lot of great opportunities through it
being able to branch out into the field as well

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as meet with a lot of great instructors.

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There's a lot of hands on learning,
there's a lot of application learning.

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So you're not just learning theories,

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you're learning how this is
going to apply in the workforce.

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>> It's always kind of interesting.

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You get student reviews and they always say,
well it's an easy class if you do the work.

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Okay, well.

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When you kind of think about school in
general how easy is school if you do the work?

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So it's one of those things, yeah
it's easy, but is it challenging?

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Sure. There is certain principles, especially in
terms of economics, there's some tough concepts.

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Graduates of the program, they are graduating
with a shortage of about 25,000 students.

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There's roughly 60,000 jobs
available for ag business graduates

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and we're only filling about
35,000 of those jobs.

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We've got marketing, we've got sales.

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You like numbers you can be an accountant.

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You can go and be a lobbyist.

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There's a lot of government jobs.

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in terms of regulatory agencies
that are available.

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And it really depends on what you
have an interest or a passion in.

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>> Companies are actually coming to us already
while we're going through this program,

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they want to hire us because of these skills
that we're developing through this program.

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A lot of people think community college
is lesser education than a university.

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I've actually found it to be
maybe even a little bit better.

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I've had a lot of professors who actually come
from the career field that they're teaching in.

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And so they're coming back because they
want to teach and so you're getting

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that better education, versus maybe at a
university where your instructor is doing a lot

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of research and they're having the
teachers assistant who is teaching

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versus that one on one contact with a professor.

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