College receives funding to help alleviate workforce shortage

Lakeshore Technical College in Wisconsin is the recipient of more than $1.2 million of the $20 million unanimously approved in May by the state’s Joint Finance Committee.

It will help Wisconsin’s technical college to expand the oral health care workforce, advocates say. 

The funds will also support the college’s recently announced plans to add an accredited dental hygiene associate degree program.

“With average starting wages for dental hygienists sitting around $39 per hour in our area, these are in-demand jobs offering family-sustaining wages," said Lakeshore President Paul Carlsen, Ph.D.

He said the college is adding the dental hygiene program in response to requests from local dentists who are facing difficulties filling open hygiene positions. 

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