Workforce Development
The economy is still recovering from the Great Recession, which was characterized by skyrocketing unemployment rates. Many adults found themselves without the skills needed to find work in the new, knowledge-focused economy, and colleges and universities have ample opportunity to create programs to help people find careers in growth industries.
Bootcamps Go To College
Matthew Rascoff | Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation, Duke UniversityIn April 2018 the coding and design bootcamp General Assembly was acquired by a Swiss staffing firm for $413 million. Bootcamps are often described as disruptors of higher education, giving…
How Community Colleges Support the Local Workforce
Rhonda Tracy | Former Chancellor, Kentucky Community and Technical College SystemGiven the climate today—economically, politically, and educationally—the interest in how colleges are meeting the needs of the workforce has never been greater. The ability and relevancy of higher education to…
The Essential Employability Qualities Certification: Assuring Graduates Are Prepared for the 21st Century Workforce
Melanie Booth | Executive Director, The Quality Assurance Commons for Higher and Postsecondary EducationPreparing learners for employment has become an expected outcome of higher and postsecondary educational programs, regardless of discipline or degree level. Yet surveys and studies continually reveal a growing divide…
Beyond Vocational: Adult Education Confronts the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Tommy Perkins | Vice President of Marketing, AboundAdvanced applications for big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence can take us to new heights, or plunge us into a dystopian future where robots absorb jobs, unemployment soars and…
Winners in the Modern Workforce: Using the Language of Competency to Shift the Hiring Process
Richard Senese | President, Capella UniversityThe current workforce is continuing to evolve at a dramatic pace and is on track to look significantly different in 2018 than it has in the past. As such, both…
Closing the Skills Gap One MOOC at a Time: How Google is Transforming the Lifelong Learning Environment
Natalie Van Kleef Conley | Senior Program Manager of Diversity, Inclusion & Outreach, Corporate Engineering, GoogleThe skills gap is currently one of the defining features of the labor market. There are hundreds of thousands of middle-skill jobs available but few individuals with the skills and…
Going Off The Grid: Creating A Fully Online, Workforce-Focused Community College
Eloy Ortiz Oakley | Chancellor, California Community CollegesIn 2019, the California Community Colleges System will launch a fully online community college. This new, competency-based online college will focus primarily on offering sub-degree credentials and skills training that…