Workforce Development

Filling the advanced manufacturing skills gap

Kevin Patino, a second-year student at Richland College in Dallas County Community College District in Texas, walked by the advanced manufacturing lab on campus one day and immediately “fell in love” with the state-of-the-art, gleaming…


Ga. grants will cover more high-demand industries

Gov. Nathan Deal has announced that beginning in January the state will expand its HOPE Career Grant to offer students greater career opportunities in five of Georgia’s fast-growing industries, increasing the total number of programs…


Hopeful signs amid skilled technical workforce challenges

First the good news: Connecticut offers proof that it is possible to improve attitudes about manufacturing careers and increase enrollments in advanced technology programs. Madeline PattonMadeline Patton is an education writer based in Ohio.More Posts



A smoother transfer path for computer science

Community colleges are key to increasing diversity in technology, yet transfer rates in computer science (CS) tend to lag compared to other programs. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More Posts – Website


Workforce concerns in cybersecurity

Making baccalaureates the minimum degree requirement for even entry-level jobs is, in part, feeding the shortage of skilled workers in the cybersecurity industry, a panel of higher education and business and industry leaders told lawmakers…


Take ATE innovations to scale

Mike Russo set an ambitious goal for the principal investigators of National Science Foundation-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers who he addressed Monday evening in Washington, D.C. Madeline PattonMadeline Patton is an education…



DACA, front and center

A week-long national campaign among higher education organizations to spotlight the importance of DACA legislation for undocumented immigrant students kicked off Monday less than five miles from the U.S. Capitol. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by…


Bumphus named to president’s apprenticeship task force

Walter G. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, will serve on the President’s Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion. The task force — which represent companies, trade and industry groups, educational…