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The Community College as a Nexus for Workforce Transitions: A Critical Essay
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Jacobs, James; Voorhees, Richard A. – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2006
Community colleges traditionally have been a nexus for transitions to and from the workforce. This article examines horizontal and vertical workforce transitions and how a global economy and the need to train new subpopulations of future workers will cause community colleges to approach their roles in workforce training differently. There are too…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Education Work Relationship