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By Kathy Chouteau
Enterprise Holdings, the world’s largest car rental provider and operator of the Enterprise, National and Alamo companies, is launching its Automotive Collision Engineering Pilot Program at Contra Costa College (CCC) in San Pablo.
The pilot program is launching this semester, spring 2021, with the first official day of instruction being Jan. 25, according to CCC Professor of Collision Repair Technology and Automotive Department Co-Chair Laura Lozano.
“We will be running a partially online program (this semester) with fully in-person labs and online lectures,” she said.
As part of the two-year apprenticeship model, CCC students will receive a real-world education while concurrently earning their Associate Degree. Students will be matched with an employer partner and alternate between eight weeks of classroom/lab experience and eight weeks of full-day work-based learning at a participating collision repair facility. A percentage of students’ pay for their