Meeting participants recommended approval of Corteva’s barber program application and Corteva Institute’s cosmetology program application and voted to recommend both, clearing a step the presenters said will allow hiring and training of instructors. The votes were taken separately and passed unanimously.

The action follows a short discussion about income disclosures in program materials. A participant identified only as Jessica asked whether tips were accounted for in the median-wage figures shown to prospective students. Jessica (meeting participant) asked, “Is there any way you could just say like the, you know, you are also making tips, and tips are supposed to be reportable whether they do or not?”

A presenter (staff member) replied that the program uses Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for median wages and that the materials are limited to government data. The presenter said, “So we get all of our data from BLS, so we're not allowed to up that. We use government data … that’s the median.” She added that, as a licensed cosmetologist, she believed many workers may underreport tips but that the program “teach[es] them how to do that in business courses” and that the disclosures will stick to government data so the school does not “overpromise.”

The committee took two separate motions. A participant moved to approve Corteva’s barber application and another participant seconded; the motion passed on an aye vote. Later, the group moved to recommend approval of Corteva Institute’s cosmetology program; that motion also passed on an aye vote.

Meeting participants noted the approvals were part of work to get the programs “moving forward so we can start hiring and training our instructors.” The meeting was adjourned after the two votes.

Discussion versus decision: the wage-disclosure exchange was discussion only — attendees suggested noting that students may earn tips but the presenter said the published median uses BLS data and the materials will not alter that figure. The formal, recorded outcomes were the two separate approvals to recommend Corteva’s barber application and Corteva Institute’s cosmetology program application.