Responsibilities of Participants
San Jacinto College, Prospective student, Sponsoring Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and Mazda Automotive Dealer, and Ford Motor Company
San Jacinto College:- Administer pre-entrance assessment testing
- Provide on-campus instruction in accordance with the approved ASSET curriculum
- Provide academic advisement
- Assist dealers with student selection for program
- Assist dealership coordinators when planning learning experiences at the sponsoring dealership
- Keep sponsoring dealer informed of student’s academic progress
- Maintain student scholastic records
- Furnish program information when requested
Prospective Students:
- Fulfill all employment requirements of sponsoring dealership
- Maintain academic standards
- Participate in all learning activities at the scheduled times
- Provide sponsoring dealer with responsible and productive employment
- Be responsible for program costs: tuition, fees, books, tools, housing, mileage, etc.
- Wear sponsoring dealer uniform during both college and cooperative experience phases of program neatly groomed and shirt tail tucked in.
- Wear Safety glasses at all times while in lab areas.
Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and Mazda Dealer:
- Identify interest in being a sponsoring dealer
- Interview and select prospective student (s)
- Provide “dealership-coordinated work experience” in accordance with the program schedule and for the duration of the curriculum
- Appoint an in-dealership mentor to help develop trainee to full productivity level and to work with the San Jacinto College Central ASSET instructor
- Pay trainee during periods of dealership-coordinated work experience
- Provide related work experience while assigned to the dealership that supplements that trainee’s most recent instruction (when within dealer’s capacity to do so)
- Provide the new student employee with work uniforms in a manner consistent with other dealership employees
- Provide Ford training of involved college instructors
- Furnish college with Ford vehicles and components
- Provide college with essential training materials, including Ford Training Center handout pieces
- Oversee and participate in student selection procedure
- Monitor all phases of ASSET to assure success