{"id":2289,"date":"2022-09-21T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:19:47","slug":"accs-new-toyota-training-program-receives-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/blog\/2022\/09\/21\/accs-new-toyota-training-program-receives-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC\u2019s new Toyota training program receives certification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>ACC was presented with official certification for the Toyota T-TEN Program. The program helps address the growing need for auto technicians.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACC&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/autotech\/toyota-t-ten-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technician Training &amp; Education Network (T-TEN) program<\/a><\/strong> received official certification Thursday, September 15.&nbsp;T-TEN provides a pipeline for students to train and apply for careers with Toyota and Lexus upon completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt Austin Community College, we take our role in workforce development seriously. It is a collective effort from dealers and Toyota to our curriculum developers and the ACC team to make this possible,\u201d says Dr. Monique Umphrey, ACC Provost\/Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic &amp; Student Affairs. \u201cStudents can\u2019t just go through lab and theory. They need simulations, labs, and hands-on training. It feels good to know the amount of quality, rigor, and fidelity that goes into these programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representatives from Toyota Motor North American and the Gulf States Toyota spent a week touring the facilities at the Round Rock Campus and inspecting the program to award the certificate. Toyota executives recognized the college\u2019s program for preparing future technicians with 300+ additional hours of hands-on training they required.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe hear all the time about a technician shortage, but that\u2019s a national problem. It\u2019s a local solution, and we need programs like these at ACC to fix the issue,\u201d says Guillermo Lopez, Gulf States Toyota Fixed Operations Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/09\/ACC-T-TEN-students-train-on-cars-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2291\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students are accepted into the program on the basis of their placement by sponsoring dealers. The first cohort of 15 students began in August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are currently 35 locations offering the T-TEN program across the U.S. ACC is the only T-TEN program in Central Texas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, visit&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/academic-and-career-programs\/areas-of-study\/design-manufacturing-construction-and-applied-technologies\/automotive-technology-and-outdoor-powered-technology\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>austincc.edu\/autotech.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC was presented with official certification for the Toyota T-TEN Program. The program helps address the growing need for auto technicians. ACC&#8217;s Technician Training &amp; Education Network (T-TEN) program received official certification Thursday, September 15.&nbsp;T-TEN provides a pipeline for students to train and apply for careers with Toyota and Lexus upon completion. \u201cAt Austin Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,171,89],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chancellors-priorities","tag-automotive-technology","tag-certification","tag-partnerships","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}