Progressive Insurance intends to hire up to 6,400 new employees during the remainder of 2021 to support the national insurance organization’s growth. With 2020 total revenues topping $42 billion, the company continued to gain market share and increase its customer base and it will be adding more employees in claims, customer care, technology, analysis and […]
I-CAR Volunteer Committees Organizing Fundraisers to Benefit Local Collision Repair School Programs
With in-person events returning around the country, the Collision Repair Education Foundation’s (CREF) would like to recognize the St. Louis, Atlanta, and Nashville I-CAR volunteer committees who are organizing fundraisers that will benefit their local high school and college collision programs. Industry members are encouraged to support these events, which will gather hundreds of local […]
Families in Career Technical Education More Satisfied with Education, Prepared for College
Advance CTE released findings April 28 from a national survey of over 2,000 middle and high school families on effective messages and messengers for recruiting learners to participate in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs. Communicating Career Technical Education: Learner-centered Messages for Effective Program Recruitment, released with support from the Siemens Foundation, is an update to […]
AASP-MN Awards $21,000 in Scholarships to Automotive and Collision Repair Students
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of Minnesota (AASP-MN) announced scholarship awards totaling $21,000 to help automotive service and collision repair students pay for tuition or tools during the 2021-22 school year. The scholarships are in the amount of $1,500 and are made possible with the generous donations from the Minnesota State I-CAR Committee and […]
CARSTAR Colorado Business Group Continues Partnership with Pickens Technical College on Internship Program
The CARSTAR Colorado Business Group is doing its part to invest in the success of collision repair students that are the industry’s future workforce. For more than a decade, the Denver-area CARSTAR store owners and team members, with 11 locations from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins, have provided support and coaching for Pickens Technical College […]
Collision Repair Education Foundation Connecting Collision Students with Employers
While the pandemic hasn’t allowed the Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) the ability to conduct their in-person high school and college transportation student career fair events this school year, CREF has been electronically gathering hundreds of collision student resumes of those who are currently looking for full/part-time employment. The goal is to help address the […]
TechForce Introduces the Peer Network to Advance Careers of Future and Working Transportation Technicians
The TechForce Foundation has introduced a free online platform dedicated to launching and advancing the careers of next generation technicians. As the provider of more than $1.5 million in scholarships annual for post-secondary technician training, TechForce has been dedicated to solving the transportation technician shortage by helping students to and through careers as transportation techs […]
Interview: Mary Mahoney, Enterprise
In our video interview, Mahoney details the new collision engineering pilot program designed to attract and train the next generation of collision repair technicians. In January, Enterprise Holdings announced the launch of its Automotive Collision Engineering Pilot Program, a collaboration of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation and Ranken Technical College. The program is designed to attract […]
AASP-MN Auto Service and Collision Repair Scholarship Applications Open
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of Minnesota (AASP-MN) will be awarding scholarships to select students enrolled in post-secondary auto service or collision repair programs. Scholarship awards will be $1,000 per student and can be applied towards tuition or tool purchases. Recipients must be entering their first or second year of an ASE-accredited automotive program […]
Collision Repair Education Foundation Launches 12 Days of CREF-mas Winter Giving Campaign
In our video interview, Melissa Marscin from CREF discusses the challenges schools and students have faced due to the pandemic and how the industry can help develop its future workforce. As the Congress made it easier for individuals to deduct charitable donations in the CARES Act passed to help the nation recover from the pandemic, […]
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