Duane Bouska has a better grasp on the technician shortage than most. He’s spent the last 26 years as an instructor at the Northeast Iowa Community College in Keller, Iowa, working the school’s John Deere TECH Program. In that time, he’s seen the needs and wants of his students change dramatically.
“It’s like day and night,” he says. “I had 18 years in the shop before I started here. When I first got hired I said, ‘Oh, wow, you’re going to hire me? That’s cool. Oh, you’re going to pay me, too? That’s even better.’”
Bouska currently has 64 students, 31 freshmen and 33 sophomores, in his program, and these are the highlights he shared about how this next generation of techs needs to be brought in.
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