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Download full textKelly Asche; Marnie Werner – Center for Rural Policy and Development, 2023
The need for a larger labor force in Southwest Minnesota is at peak heights and employers are looking for strategies that keep local high school and college graduates in the region. The analysis of 38,154 southwest high school graduates shows that their post-high school paths and plans are related to whether an individual has meaningful workforce…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Employment, Career Choice, Employment Level
Direct linkNicholas W. Affrunti – National Association of School Psychologists, 2023
The current brief provides an overview of the 2021-2022 school year student-to-school psychologist ratio for every United States territory, using the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) counts of school psychologists. In addition to this, data are presented on the percentage change in student-to-school psychologist ratio from the…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Counselor Client Ratio, Public Schools, Elementary Schools
Peer reviewedJones, Lena – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter explores ways that the civic and workforce missions of community colleges might be better integrated in practice, using Minneapolis Community and Technical College as an example.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Mission, College Role, Technical Education
Dailey, Caitlin Rose; Mean, Monica; Charner, Ivan; Jordan, Kevin; Klein, Steven – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2017
Many employers report difficulty finding qualified candidates for jobs, while millions of American workers are under- or unemployed. At the core of this issue is a startling perception gap involving the skills needed for workplace success. Postsecondary educators -- including those at community colleges -- who prepare workers live on one side of…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Vocational Education
Harmon, Tim; Bragg, Debra D. – Community College Research Initiatives, 2020
As part of our research on the community college baccalaureate (CCB), we studied the prospects of adopting and scaling CCB degrees in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Higher education leaders in these six Great Lakes states recognized the potential for CCB degrees to increase academic, geographic and financial access to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Access to Education, Outcomes of Education
White, Emily R.; Crawford, Anna M. – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2018
In the fall of 2016, through research funding from the Northwest Area Foundation, the College Fund began exploring the landscape of workforce education with tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington. Key stakeholders were identified who have knowledge and experience with workforce…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Labor Force Development, Reservation American Indians, Tribally Controlled Education
Kazis, Richard; Snyder, Nancy – Boston Foundation, 2019
This paper asks the question: Is now the right time to consider a statewide policy initiative to support increased access for Massachusetts community college students to paid internships that can help them improve their employment and earnings trajectory? Is this something that employers, colleges, and state leaders would see as a welcome…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, State Policy, Internship Programs
Anderson, Lexi – Education Commission of the States, 2015
States are introducing and enacting an increasing number of bills targeted toward workforce development and career and technical education. The increase in legislation illustrates a shift toward creating collaborations between higher education institutions and employers in the state as one strategy to enhance workforce development and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Educational Policy, Vocational Education, State Legislation
Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Perry, Angela – Project on Student Debt, 2019
California has long been a national and global leader in developing and maintaining quality higher education options, as well as in providing financial aid and consumer protections for Californians who access that education. However, although California's colleges and the state government do collect, receive, and report a great deal of data, these…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Access to Information, Wages, Data Collection
Nelson-Dusek, Stephanie; Gehrig, Sarah; Pittman, Brian – Wilder Research, 2017
Over the past four years, through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the 360 Manufacturing and Applied Engineering ATE Regional Center of Excellence (360) has been working collaboratively to recruit, educate, and train workers for careers in manufacturing. 360 works with partner institutions in the Minnesota State colleges and…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Labor Force Development, Grants, National Organizations
Strawn, Julie – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2011
Students forced to complete a long sequence of remedial or English language classes before they can begin their postsecondary program rarely earn college certificates or degrees. This brief highlights six promising programs that show how career pathway bridges help lower-skilled students move farther and faster along college and career paths…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Dual Enrollment, Acceleration (Education), Basic Skills
Harmon, Tim; Ridley, Neil – Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, 2014
At a time of sustained unemployment and sluggish job growth, students and policymakers are increasingly asking tough questions about postsecondary education and training outcomes. Do graduates find jobs? What are they paid? What will they earn in the future? Despite growing national interest in this information, good answers are not widely…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Employment Level, Employment Qualifications
Hudson, Elizabeth – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2013
This study investigated a federal comprehensive community initiative, the Promise Neighborhood initiative, in order to understand higher education community engagement in an embedded context. Promise Neighborhood programs aim to create a place-based system of family and education services that can support youth from early childhood through college…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Neighborhoods, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Foster, Marcie; Strawn, Julie; Duke-Benfield, Amy Ellen – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2011
How much does college matter for getting ahead in America? Having a postsecondary education--broadly defined as a credential beyond a high school diploma--continues to be one of the most important factors in getting a good job and advancing in the workforce. By one estimate, 64 percent of jobs in 2018 will require more than a high school diploma,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Postsecondary Education, Labor Force Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
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