Foundations essential to college workforce programs
NEW ORLEANS — Foundations are playing more of a key role in community college workforce programs than ever. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More Posts – Website
NEW ORLEANS — Foundations are playing more of a key role in community college workforce programs than ever. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More Posts – Website
NEW ORLEANS — If business and industry are able to address the shortage of “middle-skills” jobs, collaboration with community colleges is necessary to ensure new employees have the right skills. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of…
NEW ORLEANS — Students who complete the oil and gas drilling program at Lone Star College in Texas have the skills and behavioral attributes sought by employers. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More…
More than ever, the community college president’s attention can be split between internal and external forces. Walter G. BumphusDr. Walter G. Bumphus is president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges.More Posts
NEW ORLEANS — Both the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) agree that apprenticeship programs are critical to reducing the skills gap and ensuring a path to family-sustaining…
It may be time to look at the successes of individual programs rather than just a college’s overall rating when it comes to accountability, according to the chairman of the Senate committee working to reauthorize…
The House Education and the Workforce Committee last month passed a bill that would significantly rework the nation’s main higher education law, but the committee chairwoman reminds stakeholders — especially community college advocates — that…
The announcement that Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn will bring 13,000 jobs to Wisconsin and partner with Gateway Technical College is great news for the state’s community and technical colleges and their students, but it’s not…
Blue-collar industries in the U.S. are facing a massive skills shortage. Douglas GuthDouglas Guth is a writer based in Ohio.More Posts
Candidates for governor in Tennessee largely agreed on broad issues facing education during the race’s first televised forum this week, except for a partisan split on in-state tuition for immigrants whose parents brought or kept…