EDU Ledger
Wake Technical Community College has put 21 agentic artificial intelligence assistants to work in its student services division. The college’s enrollment chief says the tools have let North Carolina’s largest community college handle rapid growth without cutting any jobs.
Louisiana Illuminator
Major companies investing in Louisiana are looking to the state’s community and technical colleges to supply their workforce, and they are also poaching the instructors who teach there, the school system’s leader said this week.
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (blog)
Individuals entering or currently attending college will likely need to pivot to avoid similar labor market harm as recent graduates from AI-exposed majors.
Hechinger Report
The Trump administration’s efforts to crush offshore wind projects, part of its broader assault on clean energy, have created deep uncertainty for training programs like the National Offshore Wind Training Center — a collaboration between Long Island’s Suffolk County Community College, the Long Island Federation of Labor and multinational wind farm developer Orsted.
Credential Engine’s Five Minutes with … (blog)
Q&A wit Nick Moore — chief of adult learning and training for the Alabama Community College System, Credential Engine board member and a former U.S. Education Department official — about credential transparency, open data, state-level policies and more.
Work, Redefined Podcast
Rachel Lipson, a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the concept of frontier jobs, brand new occupations created by emerging technologies, and contrasts them with retool jobs, where the occupation stays the same but the underlying skills shift.
