“Green Jobs” Are Just Good Jobs Now
Despite the Trump administration’s rollback of incentives for the green energy transition, job training programs are growing at community colleges—with strong demand from states and employers.
Industry-Led Education
The two-year college sector taps a strategy developed after the dot-com bust to help tech training stay current. Also, the Rockefeller Foundation makes a $100M bet on good jobs, and…
How Miami Dade College Built Its AI Programs by Letting Industry Talk First
One of the nation’s largest community colleges is flipping the model for getting advice from industry.
CHIPS Forges a “New Normal” for Regional Workforce Development in Advanced Manufacturing
This is the final edition in a series of briefs on the impact multibillion-dollar chips investments have had on four regional workforce development systems.
An Exercise in Complexity
Defining progress, completion, and success in nondegree programs is far from straightforward.
FOMO on Economic Mobility
The Where You Work Matters list goes deep on career advancement, wages, and retention. Liberty Mutual and GM are among 22 companies getting top marks. Also, the White House wants…
One Million Apprentices? The Math Only Works if Women Are Included
President Trump was right to set an ambitious goal for apprenticeship—but his own administration’s efforts to roll back programs that support women apprentices stand in the way of scale.
Semiconductor Investments Are Changing Regional Workforce Development Systems. Can They Be Transformational?
Introducing a series of issue briefs looking at workforce training responses in four U.S. regions—the sites of some of the nation’s largest semiconductor company investments.
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