Jul 3, 2022

WFM Biweekly - July 3, 2022 - Mid-Year Progress, Funding Resources, Ed Expectations, CTA, Guide to WFD, Social Capital

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FEATURE ARTICLE - Part IV: NCRN Conference Explainer on Resources for Funding

Here we synthesized some of the salient information shared at an informative conference session titled "Perspectives on Resources for Non-degree Credentials.“

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FEATURE ARTICLE - Education Expectations: Views on the Value of College and Likelihood to Enroll

On June 15, 2022, the Strada Education Network held an informative webinar moderated by Editor of The Job Paul Fain. The webinar was titled “Education Expectations: Views on the Value of College and Likelihood to Enroll,” based on a Strada report of the same name.

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FEATURE ARTICLE - Understanding the College Transparency Act

The proposed federal College Transparency Act (CTA) could turn around information shortcomings by closing today’s gaps in college data reporting, according to a recent report by the National Skills Coalition (NSC).

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REPORT SUMMARY - A Guide to the American Workforce System

This December 2020 guide by Nexight Group, a business consulting company based in Silver Spring, Maryland, is a good primer for defining the formidable American workforce system.

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REPORT SUMMARY - Building Professional Social Capital for Black Learners and Workers

For Black learners and workers, in particular, JFF Labs, with support from the University of Phoenix, explained that “professional social capital can unlock opportunities for greater economic advancement and mobility, ultimately reducing the racial income, employment, advancement, and wealth gaps that hold our country back.”

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Editors' Picks

Expert Series | Workcred

Workcred staff joined several episodes of RVN Television’s Morning Coffee Expert Series to discuss various workforce and credentialing-related topics in 2021-2022.

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Workforce GPS | US Department of Labor

Online technical assistance website created to help build the capacity of America’s public workforce investment system. Sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor,.

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Rural's Rise | Lightcast

People are moving from urban centers to rural communities—and our database of 1 billion postings shows that the jobs are following them. Learn what these trends mean for community development in our new report.

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Non-Degree Market Tension | Encoura

The race to offer shorter, cheaper, and more focused offerings—whether by traditional schools or alternative providers like Udemy and Linkedin Learning—has created a growing web of courses and programs designed to offer non-degree pathways for upskilling, reskilling, and everything in between.

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ACE Works to Expand Acceptance of Digital Records and Credentials with Community College Systems with Support from Walmart | Acenet

ACE has received a grant from Walmart to help millions of working adults gain access to postsecondary education and more economic opportunities through the expansion of digital platforms and exchanges

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New Goodwill® National Poll: Amid Pandemic, Majority of Current Job Seekers Say They Lack Skills Needed to Access Good Jobs | Goodwill Industries International

Majority of adults (54%) are not in an ideal job with opportunities to grow, and most say skills training would help. A majority of current job seekers indicate a lack of skills and access to training is a primary barrier to employment.

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From Our Library

Quotable Quotes from Workforce Development Professionals

Ten Quotes Extracted from 10 Workforce Monitor Articles.

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Understanding Comprehensive Learner Records

WFM’s beginning foray into a complex learner record-keeping topic that has been gaining traction quickly and earnestly in higher ed: Comprehensive Learner Records (CLRs).

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Mid-Year Progress Report

With summer now officially open, I’ll be working part-time for one or two weeks. The next issue of the Workforce Monitor (WFM) newsletter resumes on July 31, 2022. I’ll be posting Editors’ Picks to the WFM Twitter and LinkedIn feeds, as well as conducting more research for more articles and special reports, so I will not be completely off the grid. Anyone is welcome to contact me at glorenzo@wfmonitor.com.

I launched Workforce Monitor in January 2021 because I felt there was a market for an information service that could report on and summarize the latest developments happening across the landscape of the vast world of workforce education, workforce development, and the labor market. Exacerbated by the pandemic, I could see how an overabundance of information about workforce education, workforce development, and the labor market in the forms of special reports, scholarly articles, education media, podcasts, and webinars was increasingly bringing about mass confusion and an inability to keep up with the numerous and latest erudite insights and best practices. This still seems to be the case today.

So, I continue conducting deep research, writing feature articles and report summaries, managing a word press website, and publishing an electronic newsletter with the goal of creating a complete online center of information that could help define and report on best practices in one place. This effort has thus far resulted in a substantial, worthwhile library of information under the broad tag line of “summarized resources on credentials and the future of work.”

Currently there are more than 250 feature articles, report summaries, and special reports published within 16 primary categories, ranging from apprenticeships to credentials to innovative organizations. Plans are to increase editorial production under all of these categories.

We recently started a workforce intermediaries section that will eventually become a substantial resource for keeping everyone aware of the many services and products offered by numerous organizations and companies that provide education and training advisement, support, and delivery services to workers and employers. Basically, workforce intermediaries form the multi-faceted connections between job seekers and workers and employers. Categorizing all these intermediaries is the next step in this process, which is proving to be a time-consuming challenge. Stay tuned!

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, if you are interested in possibly becoming involved in WFM’s exciting future plans, please feel free to contact me anytime. We are working on some innovative projects that could benefit the right organizations and companies operating in the workforce education space, including freelance writing, research, publishing, and consulting services for articles and full-on sophisticated research reports.

Thank you and let’s keep making things better and continue to combat overt social and political authoritarianism during these trying times.

Best wishes,

George Lorenzo

Writer, Editor & Publisher of Workforce Monitor

glorenzo@wfmonitor.com

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Workforce Monitor is published with the Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy at George Washington University. We comb through all the erudite literature on Workforce Development issues, trends, and strategies as they relate to the world of education. We then synthesize our favorite research into concise summaries and feature articles, covering this broad landscape in a way that can save you time.

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