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Video: Dexter Russell Partners With QCC

September 2016

Check out the newest video that highlights how QCC partners with local businesses to offer courses and career paths for employees.

In Southbridge for almost 200 years, initially providing knives for shoemakers, Dexter Russell is the largest manufacturer of professional cutlery in the world. The company is a partner with QCC in it's expansion of technology programming in Southbridge.  

Hear from Alan Peppel, the President/CEO about how Dexter Russell employs QCC graduates. The company offers tuition assistance to employees to further their education. He said the company needs employees at different levels, with programming skills, management skills and he is looking forward to continuing to work with QCC to train employees.

The video includes testimonials from recent graduates who work at Dexter Russell.

“Quinsigamond definitely prepared me very well for moving onto a four-year school, it helped me to excel when I went onto Western New England University,” said Thomas Kennedy, a mechanical engineer at Dexter Russell.

Watch the video and other videos about how QCC is partnering with different companies to offer students pathways to STEM success.

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