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>> The Cypress College airline and travel careers program
is a dynamic program that offers three different opportunities for students.
They can major in flight attendant, airline customer services
or travel and tourism.
There's not that many programs like this across the United States.
One of the things that we do is once students are getting close
to achieving their certificates, we'll actually start working with them,
telling them where to go to apply, we'll work with--
they do a project where they investigate different companies
that they might want to work for.
Yeah, we've had tremendous success with getting students hired,
we have an outstanding advisory board, we also have
a lot of students that are out there working that will help
assist new students coming on board so they're getting
the inside scoop on what they can expect in the interview,
what they can expect in training, if it's a good company or not.
So, our best advocates for the new students are the students
that have graduated from us.
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>> All our teachers have been in the industry before,
or are still in the industry knowing that they're enjoying it,
and they're teaching us about it, and like just having like
hands-on experience from them telling us what we should or shouldn't do,
it's really beneficial.
>> We have many field trips that we're able to take part in,
like today we went to the Long Beach Airport,
and they gave us a behind the scenes tour not only at the airport,
but the operations at Jet Blue Airlines.
We've also been involved in disaster preparedness drills,
we did one at LAX a couple of years ago, there's another one
coming up at Long Beach where we get to be a part of how the airports
train for disasters from airplane crashes,
to earthquakes, things of that nature, so it goes beyond
the normal classroom setting where we get to go out into the field,
and really experience the industry.
>> Hi, my name is Sierra Nagroan, I've been attending
Cypress College for a few semesters now.
I personally, I love it here. I meet lots of people,
and the instructors actually know what they are talking about,
and I enjoy it here.
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