March 24, 2009It’s a Rocky Road in Detroit Rock City

Photo by Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times

Fascinating piece from this morning’s New York Times: At Auto Engineers’ School, a Course in Layoffs 101

“For much of the last 90 years, Kettering University honed its reputation as the West Point of the automobile industry, offering valuable work experience for its students at car companies and parts suppliers, and then virtually assuring them lucrative jobs upon graduation…Now the 2,300 students at Kettering are finding this fast track to a career shut down because of the crisis in Detroit.”

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