Career Pathways for Adult Workers

The advanced manufacturing career pathway in Pryor developed via the Career Pathways for Adult Workers project will provide participants with comprehensive academic and student support to enter into, retain, and complete training at various points of entry and exit. OSUIT will expand program delivery to include night and weekend class and lab offerings, and add blended learning through online expansion of select courses within the program. Thus, whether participants were recently laid off, looking for work or are currently underemployed, they will soon have the ability to attend training according to their scheduling needs. Additionally, the Google plant's provision of 13 blocks of free Wi-Fi in downtown Pryor will assist students with internet access. Third-party credentials will be offered through continuing education (CE) so students may gain industry-recognized skills on a rolling basis and as they progress through their academic degree in OSUIT's Manufacturing Technology Associate of Applied Science degree program. Credentials may include NCRC, OSHA 10, MSSC, NIMS, CPT, CPL, and AWS. Credentials will be awarded credit through CE conversion and/or use of Prior Learning Assessments, which may accelerate the student's time to completion and enable them to enter into and/or advance in the industry sooner. Redesigned remedial education curriculum will also accelerate time to completion for those students who would otherwise place into traditional tracks leading to more debt with no credit earned.