{"id":97585,"date":"2018-10-08T18:13:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pcc-to-close-cosmetology-program-at-southwest-campus\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T18:13:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:13:35","slug":"pcc-to-close-cosmetology-program-at-southwest-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pcc-to-close-cosmetology-program-at-southwest-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"PCC to close cosmetology program at Southwest campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=460a28ca-8ad4-4090-bf2b-5bdeb4273b3f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=460a28ca-8ad4-4090-bf2b-5bdeb4273b3f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=460a28ca-8ad4-4090-bf2b-5bdeb4273b3f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=460a28ca-8ad4-4090-bf2b-5bdeb4273b3f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1373\" alt=\"Mariah Bradshaw talks to students about the cosmetology department at Southwest Colorado Community College in 2014.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mariah Bradshaw talks to students about the cosmetology department at Southwest Colorado Community College in 2014.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The school cut the program because of low enrollment and unsustainable jobs in the Mancos\/Cortez area, according to Mary Chavez, PCC\u2019s dean of health and public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sustainability of this program has been a concern for a few years now,\u201d said PCC President Patty Erjavec..\u201cWe have a responsibility to both our taxpayers and our students to ensure we offer programs that will ultimately address industry needs and yield a livable wage. \u2026 The market is saturated with qualified cosmetologists at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PCC cosmetology department typically offers courses for students to become hair stylists, manicurists and estheticians. Because of low enrollment, PCC offered only the manicurist program this year.<\/p>\n<p>Students were told during enrollment that the department would close after the spring 2019 semester, and they will complete their courses in May and receive manicurist certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradshaw talks to students about the cosmetology department at Southwest Colorado Community College in 2014.The Journal file The school cut the program because of low enrollment and unsustainable jobs in the Mancos\/Cortez area, according to Mary Chavez, PCC\u2019s dean of health and public safety. \u201cThe sustainability of this program has been a concern for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97585"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}