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Mary Fulton

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Challenges Community Colleges Face to Reach the Unemployed - 0 views

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    Survey found that high unemployment and state budget cuts have made it harder for community colleges to offer workforce training. Survey also found that community colleges are being pushed to offer quick job training without academic credit at the expense of more costly long-term programs. (Education Policy Center, U of AL, December 2011)
Mary Fulton

Community College Reforms to Spur Workforce Development - 0 views

www.mass.gov/...es-partner-with-workforce.html

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    Masschusetts Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled a plan to unify the state's 15 community colleges and give the board of higher education more oversight of the campuses. The plan also intends to strengthen the role of community colleges in workforce development.
Bruce Vandal

Higher Education and Jobs - 0 views

net.educause.edu/...ff0909s.pdf

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    article in Forum Futures in 2009 from Anthony Carnevale discussing the need for better systems to align higher education and the workforce. Focuses on a data system to better track skill demands and training opportunities.
Bruce Vandal

Degrees of Speed - Jamie P. Merisotis and Stan Jones - 1 views

www.washingtonmonthly.com/...1005.merisotis-jones.html

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    Piece from Jamie Merisotis of the Lumina Foundation and Stan Jones from Complete College America on creating and developing cohort based, time constrained degrees.
Bruce Vandal

Educating Adult Workers: The Shifting Gears Approach to Systems Change - 0 views

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    Paper reporting on the strategies used to generate policy change in states participating in Joyce Foundation's Shifting Gears Initiative.
Bruce Vandal

Quick Credentials Are Keys to Putting People Back to Work - Government - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

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    Piece on forum sponsored by New America Foundation featuring Stan Jones and Jamie Merisotis on developed cohort based, workforce aligned certificate programs.
Bruce Vandal

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018 - 2 views

cew.georgetown.edu/jobs2018

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    Report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce that provides a national and state-by-state analysis of job requirements through 2018 and the education level that will be required. He argues that without an effort to increase college completion, many of the jobs in the near future will go unfilled.
Bruce Vandal

Voluntary System of Accountability for Community Colleges: Proposed Stage One Measures - 1 views

www.aacc.nche.edu/...ProposedStageOneMeasures.aspx

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    Set of metrics for measuring success of community college student success
Mary Fulton

Virginia Governor McDonnell Announces "Top Jobs of the 21st Century" Higher Education L... - 0 views

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    Press release on and summary of Virginia governor's Top Jobs act that aims to link higher education, degree attainment and workforce development.
Bruce Vandal

Top 10 Higher Education State Policy Issues 2011 - 0 views

www.congressweb.com/...PM-Top10for2011.docx.pdf

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    Brief from American Association of State Colleges and Universities on their assessment of the top 10 higher education issues for state policymakers in 2011
Bruce Vandal

Views: For Many, College Isn't Worth It - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...decision_for_many_young_people

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    Richard Vedder commentary arguing with Tony Carnevale contention that a college degree is a worthy goal for students.
Mary Fulton

Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program - 0 views

www.doleta.gov/...SGA-DFA-PY-10-03.pdf

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    Provides community colleges and other eligible institutions with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs that can be completed in two years or less, are suited for workers who are eligible for training under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers program, and prepare program participants for employment in high-wage, high-skill occupations. (Department of Labor, January 2011)
Mary Fulton

The Mini-AGI - 0 views

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    A new $2 billion federal grant program for community and for-profit colleges is designed to help retrain trade-displaced workers and accomplish some of the goals proposed under the American Graduation Initiative to increase college completion rates. The program will impose strict accountability requirements and compel participants to make academic materials available to the public. (Inside Higher Ed, 01/21/11)
Mary Fulton

What Degrees Should Mean - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/..._should_know_and_be_able_to_do

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    To try to provide a shared understanding of what college degrees mean - but without turning that into a government or other mandate - the Lumina Foundation for Education is releasing a draft of its Degree Qualifications Profile. The profile is intended to establish what the recipients of associate, bachelor's and master's degrees should know and be able to do. (Inside Higher Ed, 01/25/11)
Mary Fulton

The Degree Qualifications Profile - 1 views

www.luminafoundation.org/...ree_Qualifications_Profile.pdf

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    The profile is a framework for defining and ultimately measuring the general knowledge and skills that individual students need to acquire in order to earn degrees at various levels, such as associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. (Lumina Foundation for Education, January 2011)
Mary Fulton

A Working Model for Student Success: The Tennessee Technology Centers - 0 views

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    Describes the Tennessee Technology Centers - a statewide system of 27 institutions providing a wide range of rigorous, one to two year, technical/occupational education programs at consistently high completion and placement rates in high skill and relatively high wage employment.
Mary Fulton

What's it Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors - 0 views

www9.georgetown.edu/...whatsitworth-complete.pdf

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    Examines connection between college majors and career earnings. Difference in earnings potential between one major and another can be more than 300%. Further, majors are highly segregated by race/ethnicity and gender, with few exceptions. (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, May 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Hechinger Report | Community colleges should be at the front line of economic recovery - 0 views

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    Story on the role of community colleges in economic development.
Mary Fulton

Driving Innovation from the Middle: Middle-Skill Jobs in the American South's Economy - 0 views

www.nationalskillscoalition.org/..._middleskillsbrief_2011-08.pdf

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    Examines the percentage of middle-skill jobs -- those that require post-high school education and training, but less than a four-year degree -- available in the South. The report also looks at the percentage of job seekers meeting these qualifications. (National Skills Coalition, August 2011)
Mary Fulton

The Undereducated American - 0 views

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    Report concludes that the U.S. will need an additional 20 million workers with at least some postsecondary education over the next 15 years to meet future economic requirements and to reduce income inequality. (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, June 2011)
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