This is National Veterinary Technician Week. That observance has special significance in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n
The reason is that one of the nation’s few four-year vet tech degree programs is offered at Florida A&M University. The U.S. Bureau of Labor says the demand for vet techs is nearly 10% above the job demand average. Dr. Glen Wright, the director FAMU’s vet tech program, said you’d think students would be knocking down his door.<\/p>\n
“Currently, we have about 25 students. Our goal is to get somewhere between 60 and 70 students total.”<\/p>\n
The challenge, he said, is getting out the word on just how desirable those careers are.<\/p>\n
“It’s a very vast field and there are so many things that a person can do with that training and education to build a career for themselves.”<\/p>\n
Adding that’s especially true for those with a four-year degree from a very respected school. Namely, Florida A&M University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is National Veterinary Technician Week. That observance has special significance in Tallahassee. The reason is that one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}