Hyundai Steel Needed a Site for a $6B U.S. Plant. It Came Down to Location, Location, Workforce
Donaldsonville, La., had been repeatedly passed over for industrial projects, despite its prime location on the banks of the Mississippi. It finally got the formula right with a $30M training center.
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Building the Noncredit Data Infrastructure: State-by-State, Institution-by-Institution
Spurred on by Workforce Pell, the first true national movement to improve noncredit data is taking off. Much work remains.
The Best Interview Isn’t an Interview—It’s a Training Program
For workforce training to pay off, employers have to treat it like an integral part of their hiring process—and colleges have to build programs that don’t view graduation as the end.
Prioritizing Industry
A growing group of two-year colleges emphasize high-value programs over ones that don’t pay, with an emerging playbook from Aspen and CCRC. Also, a Louisiana community college helps bring high-wage steel jobs to town, new calls for research and policy…
Civic Infrastructure
Growing Inland Achievement seeks to help the Inland Empire’s 4.7M residents with transition points from kindergarten to employment. The regional convener is part of StriveTogether’s network, which is getting attention from foundations and state policymakers. Also, Central New Mexico Community…
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Now That Workforce Pell Is Here, Colleges Must Quash These Three Myths About Stackable Credentials
A lot of myths have grown up around stackable credentials. Here are three of the most persistent ones—and how institutions can respond to them.
Where Is Your Tugboat?
In workforce tech, we’re stuck on the idea of complex overhauls. But what our complicated system really needs is smaller, nimbler projects that continuously improve…
Scaling Workforce Development to Meet the AI Moment: A Four-Wave Framework for Understanding the Field’s Progress
In this issue brief, Matthew Muench, a veteran of major philanthropic pushes on workforce, proposes a new structure for understanding why most organizations remain sub-scale…