Mar 13, 2022

Workforce Monitor Biweekly - March 13, 2022

By Workforce Monitor • Issue #52 • View online

This March 13, 2022 issue officially marks our conversion to a biweekly (once every two weeks) newsletter from previously publishing weekly. Next issue will be published on March 27, 2022.

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FEATURE ARTICLE - University of Dayton students are learning skills employers want. Here's how Education Design Lab helped.

The University of Dayton – a private, Catholic University located in Dayton, Ohio – has awarded more than 500 digital badges in 21st century skills as part of the Lab’s BadgedToHire project.

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SPECIAL REPORT - Amazon's Upskilling Initiatives

We did a content analysis related to Amazon’s creation of skill-building programs and education opportunities for its employees as well as how Amazon supports and partners with higher education institutions.

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SPECIAL REPORT - An Historical Look at Western Governors University

With the high interest in competency-based education (CBE), we thought it would be interesting to link back to a July/August 2007 special issue of the now-defunct Educational Pathways paid-subscription newsletter that featured 12 pages on Western Governors University.

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FEATURE ARTICLE - New America Webinar Examined Community College Efforts to Engage Learners in CTE Programs

On February 28, 2022, New America’s Center on Education & Labor held an informative webinar titled “Community Colleges and CTE: Reengaging and Preparing Learners for the Post-Pandemic Economy.”

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OPINION: 900 Words on Workforce Education and Development

The enormous amount of information being disseminated about workforce education and development is both difficult to monitor and overly repetitive.

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REPORT SUMMARY - State of the Field: Findings From the 2020 National Survey of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education

This 58-page report by the Postsecondary Competency-Based Education (CBE) Research division of the American Institutes for Research is one of three annual web-based surveys on CBE that began in 2018.

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REPORT SUMMARY - COVID-19 Pandemic Continues to Reshape Work in America

Pew Research Center analyzed 5,889 part-time or full-time adult workers “who have one job or who have more than one job but consider one of them to be their primary job.”

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Editors' Picks

Our favorite picks are listed in each issue, and many others are listed daily on Workforce Monitor’s Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

High Demand and Hidden Supply | Emsi

Companies across the board are increasingly desperate to find the right talent–but because of outdated hiring practices, employers may be their own worst enemy.

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The Pandemic Has Increased Interest in Digital Transcripts. Will They Displace Degrees? | EdSurge News

Even before students at Morgan State University finish their degrees, they’ll soon have something official to let them show the world what they’ve they’ve learned so far.

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Quality and Short-Term Programs | Open Campus/The Job

The latest Congressional push to open up Pell Grants to short-term programs faces an uphill slog. But it probably won’t be the last attempt.

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The $8.5 trillion dollar skills gap: How learning leaders must address it through talent and tech | Chief Learning Officer

The largely reported 85-million-person talent deficit by 2030 highlights the role that future human talent will play alongside technology that replaces bad jobs and helps upskill and reskill workers in the future of work.

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Enrollment Increases at North Carolina Community Colleges | Inside Higher Ed

More than half of North Carolina community colleges experienced enrollment increases in fall 2021, the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges reported at a meeting Monday. Over all, enrollment across the community college system rose 2 percent this past fall, with 33 out of 58 colleges reporting increases.

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Community Colleges Must Put the ‘Education’ Back in Workforce Education | EdSurge News

Postsecondary institutions are charged with developing people’s academic skills, technical skills and positioning them for jobs and additional education through high-quality degree programs. Community colleges in particular have a difficult dual mission to train students for work and additional education. Indeed, these institutions can and should do both.

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How to Build Better Jobs | National Fund for Workforce Solutions

Using organizational research, job quality outcome maps guide smarter business decisions.

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The 10 most innovative education companies of 2022 | Fast Company

With everything from online classes and digital textbooks to AI tutors, the most innovative education companies like Duolingo and Coursera are transforming how we learn.

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Teachers are Quitting — Here’s What This Means for the World of Work | Workplace Intelligence Weekly

Although workers in nearly every industry have faced hardships during the pandemic, teachers have undoubtedly struggled more than others.

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Meeting Workforce Demand Won't Happen With Teacher and Faculty Shortages | Southern Regional Education Board

States aren’t connecting all the dots between education and workforce development, and it’s hurting our economy.

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From the Workforce Monitor Library

SPECIAL REPORT - Part II On Social Capital: Impact of Social Class and Capital on Postsecondary Education Decision-Making, Academic Achievement & Work

In Part II of this two-part series, we address the challenges low-income, first-generation college students face in their academic and career pursuits compared to their higher-income peers.

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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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