Financial Roles

May 13, 2004 Community Breakfast Comments
Financial Sector

What role could NMC play in helping you address these trends?

Curriculum

Specialized training after degree completion. Small businesses depend on outside education.
Work with high schools to develop basic customer service skills.
Provide programs and services to seniors who are staying active and want to re-train for a second or third career.
Development of integrated office systems to serve multiple needs of our clientele.
Training of assistants and support.
Continue to work with the Chamber of Commerce to identify the "gaps", needs of the small business owners.

General

NMC's ability to provide useful skills to the current and future workforce pool will affect the quality of individuals we will hire and the available clientele to serve in the community.
Provide services to older community, i.e. Dennos Museum and greater quality learning in non-credit.
Change attitudes of younger generation. (They are not entitled to have everything as soon as they get out of college.) Educate them in real world of budgets, opportunities here and abroad, mortgages, saving, consumer debt, career counseling.
Teach students to think "out of the box." Work on integrating real-life situations in to theoretical education.
Costs of living (health care, etc.) may make higher education out of reach for the average person.
Note: Northwestern Mutual offers an internship program in financial services to 3rd or 4th year (not exclusively) college students.
Counseling as a stepping stone to higher achievement.
Advisory boards need to be tapped.