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Bills Before Congress Include Workforce Initiatives

Here’s a quick rundown of three bills from the 2017-2018 Congress that would have a positive impact on closing the national skills gap, according to workforce development advocates. All three of the bills have been referred to their respective committees. Another, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, passed the House […]

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Institute Trains Workers for Casino Future

This summer or early fall, MGM’s $950 million resort-style casino is set to open in the heart of downtown Springfield, but before that happens the casino needs to hire 450 table game dealers, which is where the Massachusetts Casino Career Training Institute comes into play. The institute is a partnership between Holyoke Community College (HCC) […]

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Colorado Tackling the Nurse Gap

For community colleges across the state, the easiest way to solve the state’s nursing shortage is to expand four-year nursing programs. “An open door so to speak to get more people, more qualified people in the door at maybe a more affordable price than what can be offered at different institutions out there,” Jason Lalonde, […]

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Chevron Invests $630,000 in Workforce Development

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Pierpont Community & Technical College is one of four institutions receiving funds from Chevron Appalachia as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to area workforce development. Since 2014, Chevron has invested more than $2.1 million in ShaleNET programs the region’s community and technical schools, including Pierpont, as well as Westmoreland County Community […]

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EdX Partners with Microsoft, GE on Subsidized Courses

Digital learning platform edX is partnering with Microsoft and General Electric to provide Massachusetts residents with subsidized online courses and guaranteed job interviews. In a November press release announcing the new partnership, edX CEO and MIT professor Anant Agarwal said the program would expand career prospects for residents of the Commonwealth, giving them “the tools […]

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Study Finds Internships Lead to Jobs

Forty percent of recent associate degree graduates who had a relevant job or internship while in school had a good job waiting for them after graduation. By comparison, only 16% of those with a job or internship that was not relevant to their field of study had a good job waiting for them. Those without […]

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Toyota-Mazda Plant Has Plans to Train 4,000 Workers

When Hyundai was considering where to build its new Santa Cruz concept truck two years ago, the company’s top U.S. executive said he feared there just weren’t enough trained workers in central Alabama to support that kind of project. The comments from then-Hyundai Motor America President Dave Zuchowski surprised state and local leaders at the […]

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What’s Wrong With Worker Retraining?

When Travis Busch graduated from high school in Jefferson, Iowa, in 1999, he followed many of his classmates on the well-plotted and well-trod path to college. Busch took classes at Iowa Central Community College during the day and worked part-time at night on the floor of a local factory that made stock tanks for horse […]

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Automotive Foundation Helps Prepare Technicians

American Honda Motor Co. works with community colleges nationwide to train service technicians to work on its Honda and Acura vehicles. It spends tens of thousands of dollars on partner schools, including as much as $40,000 in tools and equipment. So the automaker counts on the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation to ensure its investments […]

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College, Airport Align for Pilot Training

When Sandhills Community College’s professional pilot training program takes off, it will do so with the support and partnership of the Moore County Airport Authority, which has agreed to contribute to its startup costs. Scheduled to open admissions in the spring and start instruction in the fall of 2018, the program will be a partnership […]

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Online-Only College Plan Targets “Stranded Workers”

With time running out on his governorship, Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing California’s 114-campus community college system to create one more college: a new fully online college that would have been unimaginable during his first term as governor. To that end, he met Wednesday with California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley and Vice Chancellor […]

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Earn as You Learn: New Push for Programs

Just before President Trump took office, Ammar Campa-Najjar wrote him a memo urging him to support apprenticeship. Apprenticeship is “a program that sounds like your show,” Campa-Najjar half-jokingly explained to Trump in the letter in a nod to the president’s reality-TV series. “You should just put your name on it, like everything else, and take […]

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