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Parents, health providers and instructors urge board to retain Emtek programs as administration seeks cuts
Summary
At a lengthy personnel hearing, community members and health-system representatives urged the Monongalia County Board to preserve EMS, surgical technology and world-language programs at Emtek while administration recommended staff reductions and program transfers amid a $4 million projected revenue shortfall.
Community members, health-care employers and program instructors urged the Monongalia County Board of Education on April 15 to preserve several career and technical education offerings at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center (Emtek) as the administration proposed personnel reductions tied to a projected decline in county revenue.
WVU Health System’s director of talent acquisition, John Rubin, told the board that WVU relies on Emtek-trained students as a recruitment pipeline and urged the district to continue surgical technology and emergency‑medical-services training. “Surgical technologists are instrumental in our ability to provide life changing and in some instances life‑saving procedures for our patients,” Rubin said.
Current and former Emtek students and local practitioners described the programs as workforce pipelines. Gabrielle Chico, a recent graduate and certified EMT, described the program as “life changing” and said…
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