Vandergriff Collision

We participate in the General Motors and Texas State Technical College Body Service Education Program (BSEP). This program promotes young people finished with high school into the collision repair industry. Additional information on this is available from the Vandergriff Collision Center Manager.

Body Service Educational Program at Texas State
Technical College

What is BSEP?
Body Service Educational Program is a General Motors/TSTC body repair program designed to produce highly trained and motivated entry-level collision repair technicians. The curriculum, designed by GM and Texas State Technical College (TSTC), leads to an Associate of Applied Science degree. The program is open to all collision industry shops and dealerships that are willing to sponsor students.

How long is the program?
The entire program takes approximately two years to complete, with about 60 percent of the time designated for technical and academic courses at TSTC. The remaining time is allocated for on-the-job training at a sponsoring auto body facility.

What are BSEP's responsibilities?

•	Provide on-campus instruction in accordance with the approved BSEP curriculum
•	Provide academic advisement
•	Assist shops with student selection for program
•	Assist shop coordinators when planning learning experiences at the sponsoring dealership
•	Keep sponsoring shop apprised of student's academic progress
•	Maintain student scholastic records
•	Furnish program information when requested

What are the student's responsibilities?

•	Fulfill all employment requirements of sponsoring dealership or independent shop
•	Maintain academic standards
•	Participate in all learning activities at the scheduled times
•	Provide sponsoring shop with responsible and productive employee
•	Provide sponsoring shop with responsible and productive employee
•	Be responsible for program costs: tuition, fees, books, tools, housing, mileage, etc.
•	Wear sponsoring dealer or shop uniform during both college and cooperative work experience phases of the program

What are the sponsoring facility's responsibilities?

•	Indicate interest in being a sponsoring dealer
•	Interview and select prospective students
•	Provide "shop-coordinated work experience" in accordance with the program schedule and for the duration of the curriculum
•	Appoint an in-shop coordinator to help develop trainee to full productivity level and to work with the BSEP coordinator at TSTC
•	Pay trainee during periods of shop-coordinated work experience
•	Provide related work experience while at the shop that supplements the trainee's most recent instruction (when within shop's capacity to do so)
•	Provide the student employee with work uniforms

What are GM's responsibilities?

•	Provide GM training to involved TSTC instructors
•	Furnish TSTC with GM vehicles and components
•	Provide TSTC with essential training materials, including General Motors Training Center manuals
•	Oversee and participate in student selection procedure
•	Monitor all phases of BSEP to assure success

What are the entrance requirements for BSEP?

•	High school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate
•	State-mandated testing requirements - Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) Test or TSTC's Alternative Test or minimum qualifying standards on exit-level Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) Test, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), or American College Test (ACT) - unless otherwise exempt as determined by the TSTC Career Exploration & Counseling Center
•	Employability by a GM dealership or independent repair facility
•	Pass a physical and drug test
•	Clean driving record
•	Desire and initiative to work hard

How do you get started?

•	Contact a participating Body Shop Manager for an interview
•	Complete the ASSET exam at the body shop
•	Contact TSTC for an appointment and interview
•	Tour TSTC, complete the interview and placement test
•	Complete employment application at the body shop
•	Apply for admission to BSEP at TSTC

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