September 11, 2000
Dear Superintendent:
At the recommendation of the Connecticut Water Pollution Abatement Association – Educational Coalition Subcommittee, the college has chosen to try offering our wastewater courses, which provide preparation for the DEP’s certification examinations, during the day in lieu of the evenings. Despite our best marketing efforts, enrollment generally has been too low to financially justify running evening classes.
It is hoped that this change will boost enrollments and help to ease the great shortage of certified operators currently being experienced by many water pollution control facilities as well as providing the training necessary to meet the DEP’s new certification requirements. Additionally, the spring courses will be offered at a water pollution control facility, which, hopefully, will also help enrollment to grow.
You can help in this effort to succeed by doing the following:
* Providing release time for staff to attend daytime classes.
* Consider serving as a paid instructor for the college and teach a wastewater course. It is necessary to have a bachelor’s degree and preferably a master’s degree in an environmentally related field in order to teach at a Connecticut community college. The teaching required would be for one three-hour class a week for a 14-15 week semester.
* Making sure that all of your staff needing initial certification or a higher level of certification are made aware of the college’s spring course offerings.
Your assistance in helping the college recruit students will be very much appreciated and will help to protect Connecticut’s precious water resources. If you are interested in serving as an instructor please send a copy of your resume to me at the North Haven campus address. I can also be contacted at (w) 203-285-2354, (h) 860-521-5433 or by E-mail at winterbottom@altavista.com
Sincerely yours,
Wesley L. Winterbottom, PE
Coordinator, Environmental and Toxicology Programs