The coordinator of the University of Wisconsin’s sixteen-week Farm and Industry Short Course says offering limited classes online for the next year is both a challenge and an opportunity.

Jennifer Blazek tells Brownfield the challenges come from not being able to offer the typical hands-on teaching. “We are so hands-on, you know, it’s hard to replicate working, you know, sticking your hand in a cow online, so, unfortunately, that meant reducing the courses we could offer and really focusing on the ones that made sense online like our ag business classes.”

Blazek says the one-year switch to online instruction does allow for more working students, plus out of state and international students to take the offered courses. 

Blazek says even with reduced class offerings, they still have scholarship dollars available and those dollars will help reduce student costs with the smaller credit loads.

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