The Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) announced that Christen Battaglia has joined the Foundation as Director of Strategic Partnerships. Battaglia, who reports to Clark Plucinski, Executive Director of CREF, will assist in growing the organization’s financial supporters and assist the organization in ensuring high school and college collision programs are fully engaged with support opportunities. Over […]
Career and Technical Education Faces Cuts in President’s FY18 Budget
Cuts, if approved by Congress, could impact collision repair training programs at high schools. Collision repair training programs in high schools would possibly face cuts under the budget proposed by the Trump Administration this week for Fiscal Year 2018 that begins in October 2017. The Administration is requesting $976.9 million to support career and technical […]
Collision Repair Education Foundation Student Resume Database Accepting Submissions
The Collision Repair Education Foundation’s online database of high school and college resumes is accepting student resume submissions. Students who are seeking full time jobs, part time jobs, or internships in the industry are invited to submit a resume to the database online at www.collisionrepaircareers.org before graduation. The database is a way for collision students, […]
Nationwide Insurance Awards $50,000 to Schools Through Collision Repair Education Foundation
The Collision Repair Education Foundation announced that Nationwide Insurance has made a $50,000 donation to assist the Education Foundation’s support of high school and college collision school programs across the country through school grants. Six schools were supported through these Nationwide school grants. The schools applied for the Education Foundation’s 2016 Ultimate Collision Education Makeover […]
ASE and Collision Repair Education Foundation Partner on Chicago Career Fair
The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) is partnering with the Collision Repair Education Foundation’s (CREF) Cars, Careers & Celebrities event being held on September 15,. This is CREF’s third year hosting the event, which last year brought together over 400 high school and college collision students from 10 states. ASE will work with […]
Student’s 2017 Tuition Debt Erased by Collision Repair Education Foundation Lon Baudoux Scholarship
Destiny Potter, a 2016 Lon Baudoux Legacy $2,000 Scholarship recipient, attended the recent I-CAR Volunteer & Instructor Conference in San Diego to highlight how much the financial support has assisted in her technical education. At the end of her presentation, Potter was surprised with the announcement that to recognize her continued efforts in gaining part-time […]
Collision Repair Education Foundation Recognizes 121 School Career Programs
The Foundation has recognized schools across the U.S. with its tiered Collision School Readiness Benchmark. The Collision Repair Education Foundation announced it has recognized 121 schools with its new designation program called the “Collision School Career Readiness Benchmark” that was launched in 2016. Under the new program developed by the Foundation, schools were classified into […]
PPG Foundation Funds $20,000 in Scholarships through Collision Repair Education Foundation
The PPG Foundation has provided $20,000 in funding for the Collision Repair Education Foundation to be awarded to students who have demonstrated a career interest in automotive repair and refinish. The scholarships, $5,000 each, are awarded annually to full-time students attending a post-secondary school with a focus on degree programs in collision repair. The funds […]
Collision Repair Education Foundation Asks for Support of Local I-CAR Volunteer Committee Fundraisers
Events being held in Indiana, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Pennsylvania. The Collision Repair Education Foundation is asking the industry to support several upcoming fundraisers that are being organized by I-CAR volunteer committees. The I-CAR committees are made up of local industry members who volunteer their time to help support their local collision repair school programs. […]
Pro Spot International Hosts Collision Repair Education Foundation Career Fair
Pro Spot International, welding and repair products supplier to the collision repair industry, hosted the Southern California Collision Career Fair from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 9th at Pro Spot’s Headquarters and manufacturing facility in Carlsbad, Calif. The Career Fair, presented by the Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF), hosted over 300 local students. […]