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The stress of working with the local auto businesses was enough to send Gene Kirkpatrick back to being a full-time teacher after spending three years as the internship coordinator. He was happy to turn the job over to Stewart.

"I feel more effective working one-on-one with the students preparing them for this industry than being out here putting up with the politics and frustrations," Kirkpatrick says.

Those politics spring from the competition between Tulsa...