{"id":541,"date":"2012-04-16T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunwoody.edu\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2012-04-16T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:13:56","slug":"senator-franken-visit-right-skills-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/2012\/senator-franken-visit-right-skills-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Franken visit Right Skills Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Senator-Franken-Dunwoody-Right-Skills-Now-forweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-543\" title=\"Senator-Franken-Dunwoody-Right-Skills-Now-forweb\" src=\"http:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Senator-Franken-Dunwoody-Right-Skills-Now-forweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(click photo to see a larger version)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Senator Al Franken (top center) visited Dunwoody earlier this month for a tour of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/manufacturing\/rsnm.html\">Right Skills Now program<\/a>, which prepares graduates to become CNC (Computer Numeric Controlled) Operators. Senator Franken visited with each of the students in the program. He also gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtwincities.com\/dpp\/money\/minn-program-trains-high-tech-workers-apr-5-2012\">an interview with Fox9 News<\/a>, where he talked about the importance of manufacturing to Minnesota and the United States and the need for more skilled workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Right Skills Now is a pilot program by Dunwoody College of Technology and South Central College and is part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rightskillsnow.org\/\">Right Skills Now<\/a> initiative. Right Skills Now is a partnership of The Manufacturing Institute, ACT, the National Institute of Metalworking Skills, and the President\u2019s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Senator Al Franken visits Dunwoody&#8217;s fast-track CNC operator training program Right Skills Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dunwoody-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senator Franken visit Right Skills Now - Dunwoody College News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/2012\/senator-franken-visit-right-skills-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senator Franken visit Right Skills Now - 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