Louisiana community colleges face faculty poaching from new industry
New industrial projects in Louisiana are poaching instructors from the state's community and technical colleges. These companies seek workforce training from the schools while simultaneously hiring away the faculty. The incoming projects offer high-paying, specialized jobs.
Major companies investing in Louisiana are looking to the state’s community and technical colleges to supply their workforce, and they are also poaching the instructors who teach there, the school system’s leader said this week. A series of major industrial projects are coming to Louisiana, touting numerous high-paying jobs that require specialized training, most notably […]
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