U.S. Secretary of Labor visits CTC over the summer

August 22, 2018

Chancellor White and Dean Stalder welcome U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta to UAF CTC’s downtown center for a tour. UAF photo by JR Ancheta.

On July 1, Chancellor Dan White and Community and Technical College Dean Michele Stalder welcomed U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan to CTC’s downtown center at 604 Barnette St. for a tour. They were also greeted by students and local job creators.

Along the tour, Acosta spoke one-on-one with students, job creators, and CTC faculty and staff. He specifically recognized the variety of over 40, career-focused programs at CTC, which are essential to workforce development in Alaska.

The downtown tour included Allied Health Program facilities, including a state-of-the-art dental facility used to train dental assistants, lab rooms that replicate patient rooms used by medical assistant students, and a suite of facilities used by nursing students, featuring hospital beds and other training equipment.

Acosta also visited CTC’s 3D printing lab that has 16 state grant-funded, 3D printing stations for drafting and design classes as well as extensive computer labs and equipment used by the information technology specialist program.

Before visiting the downtown center, Acosta toured the process technology facility at the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center, where students are trained to work in industries such as mining, petroleum, water treatment, food processing and more. The facility features a control room, wellhead and instrumentation equipment used to train students with hands-on education.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan pose for a photo with UAF Community and Technical College students, staff, faculty and community partners in front of CTC's downtown center. UAF photo by JR Ancheta.