Who is working with Oakland Community College so students can begin their bachelors degree work at Oakland?”
Film Industry Training Program (F.I.T.) Oakland Community College and S3 Entertainment Group has teamed up to launch Michigan Film Industry Training (FIT). The following is a list of courses we have scheduled from now until January: Each course is taught over 40 hours during a two week period, with classes held from 5:30pm to 9:30pm Monday through Thursday. Plus an 8 hour class on Saturday. Classes are held at the S3 Entertainment Group Studio Classroom located in Ferndale, with exception to the Introduction to Film Industry Production Accounting Course which is held at the M-TEC Building located at the Oakland Community College Auburn Hills Campus. The first step to participating in our FIT classes is attending an information session where we go over our program and the film industry in Michigan. To register for this information session, please email FIT@s3eg.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript
Michigan community colleges are challenging four-year universities for the right to offer bachelor’s degrees, and if they succeed, would join more than a dozen states across the country that already allow such degrees. The move is being opposed by Michigan’s 15 public universities, which says it’s a clear case of the colleges overstepping their missions. The bill expected to get a hearing this fall would let community colleges offer some four-year degrees. “They see it as an invasion of their turf,” said Michael Hansen, president of the 28-member Michigan Community College Association. “We’re not about taking fish out of their net. We’re about growing the net.” President Barack Obama put community colleges front-and-center in his July 14 higher education policy speech at Macomb Community College in Warren, not far from America’s struggling auto capital. Macomb County is Michigan’s most populous county without a state university. Obama announced a $12 billion proposal to increase commun
