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We changed the name of our previous WFD Orgs. section to “Workforce Intermediaries,” and we significantly boosted this growing list of links with brief abstracts.
This report shares information about Strada’s Beyond Completion Challenge (BCC), “an initiative designed to incentivize and support equitable student outcomes.”
The primary task of workforce intermediaries working within metro areas across the country is to spur economic growth. As noted in this Brookings Metro report, however, metros face numerous challenges to implement inclusive growth strategies in their communities, with the end result too often being “tremendous downstream consequences for economic and health inequities.”
“The Real World of College” was based on a study that originated from Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner stomping around ten college campuses, ranging from liberal arts to state colleges and universities, over a period of five years (2013-18), where they interviewed more than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, and administrators, trustees, alumni, and parents.
Opportunity America surveyed more than 600 community colleges across the US to provide an overview of the noncredit and credit workforce education landscape.
The WIOA bill has passed the house – it supports NSC’s key priorities but we need to expand the scope of the legislation to truly transform our workforce development system to work for workers and businesses.
The tech industry has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic and the Great Resignation, leaving organizations facing a dearth of qualified job candidates for more than 1 million openings.
Several startups are experimenting with encouraging users to watch tutorials or take quizzes in exchange for earning cryptocurrency. CoinMarketCap’s “ learn crypto, earn crypto" program, for instance, has refined its program one step further, so that once a learner demonstrates they’ve mastered some material, rewards are directly deposited into the learner’s digital wallet.
State universities must step up to address employer demand for tailored, knowledge-based degrees to help employees meaningfully advance in their careers, Jim Shea writes.
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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