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LTU President and CEO Virinder Moudgil and Focus: HOPE CEO William Jones, Jr. signed an agreement Feb.1 to offer LTU’s new Associate of Science degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Focus: HOPE’s training facility on Oakman Blvd in Detroit. Participating students will also have the additional opportunity to transfer seamlessly to LTU’s bachelor’s program

DETROIT, Mich. – Lawrence Technological University and Focus: HOPE will offer LTU’s new Associate of Science in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology degree at Focus: HOPE’s training facility on Oakman Blvd. in Detroit.

Some 16 students will comprise the first class and upon completing their program will be the latest of over 115 students who have earned Lawrence Tech college degrees since LTU and Focus: HOPE launched their partnership in the early 1990s.

LTU President and CEO Virinder Moudgil and Focus: HOPE CEO William Jones, Jr., signed the agreement Feb. 1 and met with the students, who will also have the additional opportunity to transfer seamlessly to LTU’s bachelor’s program upon completion of their associate degree.

“Focus: HOPE has long provided special opportunities to so many in Detroit,” said Moudgil. “We are very pleased to extend our relationship and provide a valuable and highly marketable degree to these young men and women who are so worthy of investment and greater opportunity.”

Jones added that “the LTU partnership is among the many programs in training and education that are helping students at Focus: HOPE enter the workforce with high levels of skills and competence. We have appreciated the long relationship that Focus: HOPE has had with Lawrence Tech, and we hope it will grow in the future.”

Focus: HOPE, www.focushope.edu, founded in 1968, is a Detroit-based organization dedicated to intelligent and practical solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education, and racial divisiveness.