Tag: Skilled Trades

By Alliyah Sims | KDVR Fox 31 DENVER (KDVR) — As more students turn to skilled trades, a growing instructor shortage threatens to slow down programs designed to train Colorado’s future workforce. Inside Emily Griffith Technical College, the classrooms don’t look like lecture halls; they resemble job sites. You can find students suited up in safety gear learning the skills that help keep Colorado running. “The demand is very, very high. Most of our trades programmings actually have a wait list,” said Gideon Geisel, dean of the college. Behind the scenes of those full classrooms comes a hidden problem. They are getting harder to staff, leaving some instructor positions unfilled for months. “Since I’ve been here, really all of the programs, you know, at one time or another h...