{"id":1047456,"date":"2026-11-06T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047456"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:03:29","slug":"community-colleges-rush-to-expand-semiconductor-training-as-labor-shortage-looms-us-chip-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/community-colleges-rush-to-expand-semiconductor-training-as-labor-shortage-looms-us-chip-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Community colleges rush to expand semiconductor training as labor shortage looms US chip industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE, Arizona: For three years, Ethan Mock worked part-time at a gym to make ends meet while taking on more than $100,000 in debt to pursue a degree in business administration. Earlier this year &#8211; his fifth and final at Northern Arizona University &#8211; he began looking beyond his major for a stable career. <\/p>\n<p>So in July, when he learned over the radio about a tuition-free, three-month semiconductor crash course at Rio Salado College, he signed up immediately, despite having no background in the field. The draw: the community college&#8217;s new program offered students a chance to interview with major chipmakers in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE, Arizona: For three years, Ethan Mock worked part-time at a gym to make ends meet while taking on more than $100,000 in debt to pursue a degree in business administration. Earlier this year &#8211; his fifth and final at Northern Arizona University &#8211; he began looking beyond his major for a stable career. So in July, when he learned over the radio about a tuition-free, three-month semiconductor crash course at Rio Salado College, he signed up immediately, despite having no background in the field. The draw: the community college&#8217;s new program offered students a chance to interview with major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047477,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047456\/revisions\/1047477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}