{"id":8858,"date":"2021-03-23T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8858"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:55:46","slug":"beer-making-for-credit-liberal-arts-colleges-add-career-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8858","title":{"rendered":"Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/some-academic-focused-colleges-are-adding-career-and-technical-training\/\">Jon Marcus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest courses: Advanced Craft Beverage Brewing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sacred Heart is launching career-focused programs like this to give its students vocational credentials that can speed them into their first jobs while expanding the university\u2019s market to older adults who are hoping to get new ones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>After all,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.connecticut.beer\/press\/2020\/7\/16\/brewers-converge-on-capitol-hill-to-seek-relief\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto !important; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(0, 172, 255) !important\">there are 115 breweries<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>in Connecticut, according to the Connecticut Brewers Guild, employing about 6,000 people. But there are no other formal training programs in the state to cover such things as brewery management and brewing theory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou need to know how enzymes work and how acids work and apply equations to what you\u2019re doing,\u201d Stopper said of the program, standing on a catwalk overlooking fermentation tanks and repurposed wine and whiskey barrels filled with beer in the cavernous warehouse of Two Roads Brewery, where the course is taught.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Marcus: &nbsp;A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest courses: Advanced Craft Beverage Brewing. Sacred Heart is launching career-focused programs like this to give its students vocational credentials that can speed them into their first jobs while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8859,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions\/8859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}