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Aylett Tapped for Skills USA Board
20 May 2004
DE QUEEN – Mike Aylett of Nashville, who serves as an Allied Health instructor for Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas, has been elected to the Arkansas District 6 Board of Skills USA. District 6 includes Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Pike, Polk, Sevier and Union Counties.
“I am very pleased to have been selected to join the board,” Aylett said. “It will give me the opportunity to help the Board pursue new means of helping students who are going into the Health field.” Aylett is the Medical Professions instructor for CCCUA Secondary Vocation Education. In his third year as an instructor at the College, Aylett teaches classes at its Nashville Extension and De Queen campus.
He noted that statewide participation for secondary and post-secondary students in Skills USA jumped from 1200 to over 1600 students for the 2003-04 school year. He added that, because of this increased participation, the Board has also begun the process of hiring a full-time director to “organize the conferences, courses, and materials.”
SkillsUSA is a national organization serving a quarter-million high school and college students and professional members who are enrolled in training programs for technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations. The mission of SkillsUSA is to help its members become world-class workers and responsible American citizens. The state chapter for Skills USA is located in the Capitol Mall in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is directed by Randy Prather.
Cossatot Community College offers both technical certification and Associate’s
degrees in a wide range of fields on its campus at De Queen, at extension sites
at Nashville and Ashdown, and at cccua.edu. It has an enrollment of more than
1,100 students, and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
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