Workforce Development

Working partners’ top 10 tips for connecting with industry

During the ATE Connects session at the annual Advanced Technological Education conference in Washington, D.C., Mary Slowinski, principal investigator of Working Partners Project & Workshops, shared tips for community college educators to work with industry….


Turning inmates into students

4,460. That’s the number of incarcerated individuals who earned a GED through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) from 2020 to 2024. And during the same period, enrollments in the GED prep classes,…


ATE on AI

Before hearing from industry thought leaders about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of work, the people involved in Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers basked in the praise of one…


A tool to gauge ‘needed math’

Two-year college educators worked through technical workplace scenarios developed by the Needed Math Project at a workshop before the start of the 2024 Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators’ Conference on Wednesday. The project, funded by…


Enrollment grows, but not among freshmen

Editor’s note: The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center announced on January 13, 2025, that it erred in its fall 2024 freshmen and dual-enrollment estimates released in October 2024. Read the article. Dual enrollment and adult…


A modernized CTE framework for a changing world

In the last 20 years, technology and the workforce have changed dramatically. That was the impetus for Advance CTE to update the National Career Clusters Framework. First published in 2002, the framework was designed, with…



Creative partnerships built through ATE

Partnerships with industry and academic institutions are required for Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants. But how recipients of these National Science Foundation awards form and use partnerships is not prescribed. Consequently, the two-year college educators…


Reporter’s notebook

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