Applied Sciences & Health
Engineers, scientists, technologists, healthcare workers
Technical Capacity Kept in Place
The assumption underlying most STEM education is that technical talent must migrate — to Silicon Valley, Houston medical centers, Research Triangle, or wherever major employers cluster. The effect is the same extraction CHI fights in every other sector: communities train their best technical and scientific minds and then lose them, leaving behind the people who couldn't leave and the infrastructure gap their leaving created.
Healthcare is the most acute dimension of this problem. Nearly one in five Americans lives in a county with a primary care physician shortage. For many rural counties, the nearest hospital is sixty miles away. When nurses and medical assistants are trained in urban academic medical centers and recruited into urban hospital systems, communities are left managing health crises without the people to respond to them. CHI's answer: form healthcare workers in the communities they already love, through accredited programs embedded in local Halls, with tutors who practice in those same communities.
The same logic extends across every technical field. The engineer who keeps the county hospital's systems running, the developer who builds the local school district's software, the network administrator who keeps the rural co-op connected, the technologist serving the energy sector in the Permian Basin — these people exist in every community, or should. CHI's STEM programs deploy technical and scientific formation into place, producing technologists with roots and healthcare workers with retention.
Accredited Programs from Partner Universities
Programs available through the CHI catalog. Offered through Hall dual-enrollment at accredited partner universities.
Start a Health Hall in your community
You don't need a building. You need a vision for your community, a group of students, and the willingness to lead. CHI provides the accredited programs, training, and ongoing support.