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Muddassir Siddiqi – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
The rapid pace of technological change is revolutionizing every sector of the economy, transforming how value is created and delivered to consumers through technologies like robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. This transformation underscores the need for a diverse workforce as the new skills valued and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Career Centers, Community Colleges, Skill Development
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Torres, William C.; Leach, Lesley F.; Glaman, Ryan; Higham, J. Russell – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
In this article, we present an example of a student's recently completed dissertation in practice (DiP) to demonstrate how the DiP can serve as culminating evidence of a student's successful preparation as a scholar-practitioner. The purpose of this DiP was to determine to what extent students develop workforce skills while completing a community…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Skill Development, Labor Force Development, Community Colleges
Robert Chapa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While the cybersecurity landscape continually evolves, with new technologies, attack vectors, and defense mechanisms emerging regularly, cybersecurity certificate programs remain challenged to stay current and relevant, often resulting in the delivery of outdated course content in existing programs. Scholars note that the absence of standardized…
Descriptors: Program Development, Computer Security, Electronic Learning, Certification
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Thomas Gauthier – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: American Community colleges are vital to the country's economic mobility and are leaders in developing and facilitating career, technical, and workforce education. This study explored employer perspectives on employees' common and specialized skills across industries in the United States. Design/methodology/approach: Employers were…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
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Daniel Sparks; Sade Bonilla – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
More than half of states have implemented tuition-free college policies aimed at reducing attendance costs and incentivizing enrollment. We review the academic literature on the design features and impacts of these tuition-free policies, and we analyze an initiative Virginia implemented in 2021 called Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3), which…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Institutional Characteristics, Student Costs, Higher Education
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Verleen McSween; Kiyarra Sealey – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) demonstrate success in facilitating pathways for STEM graduates into the STEM workforce, and this phenomenon has been widely documented (Gasman & Nguyen, 2014; Upton & Tanenbaum, 2014; Clewell et al., 2016). Although thematic analysis of the mission statements of HBCUs at the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Mission, STEM Education, Biology
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Angela Bate – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The Labour Party's manifesto aims to reform further and higher education by integrating business, training providers and unions within a governmental effort to ensure a highly trained workforce. Skills England will align training with labour market needs, empower local leaders and enhance support for job seekers. However, the focus on young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Adult Education
Business-Higher Education Forum, 2020
Strong, ongoing collaboration between business and higher education offers a solution to a growing skill shortage. But to see changes at scale, partnerships must exist within an ecosystem that fosters regular communication, relays industry needs to the academic community, and demonstrates to educators the larger marketplace for those skills. This…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Skill Development, Diversity, Education Work Relationship
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Doll, Jessica L. – Management Teaching Review, 2022
Workforce planning is prevalent and recognized as a good strategic practice in many organizations. However, business students may have little experience with workforce planning or workforce analytics. The purpose of this article is to present a workforce planning exercise for use in a face-to-face or online classroom setting. In this exercise,…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Strategic Planning, Business Administration Education, Human Resources
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Coberly-Holt, Patricia, Ed.; Elufiede, Kemi, Ed. – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2023
The 47th annual conference of the Adult and Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) was held online and in person in March 2023. This year's conference theme is "Workforce Development: Micro-Credentials, Badges, and CEUs." The proceedings are comprised of the following papers: (1) Investing in Adult Learners and Creating Learning Environments…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Labor Force Development, Adult Learning
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Linda Dale Bloomberg – International Journal of Online Graduate Education, 2024
With the complex and ever-changing business and employment environments, learners are being prepared for jobs that may no longer exist, while others are not acquiring the skills needed for the in-demand jobs to which they aspire. Given the future of workplace demands, there are strong indications that non-degree certifications and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Alignment (Education), Employment Potential, Job Skills
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Seemiller, Corey; Rosch, David M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2023
In conducting a multi-disciplinary, multi-degree study of all 83 higher education accrediting organizations in the United States and the 605 academic programs associated with them, our goal was to uncover patterns in the presence of leadership and general workforce competencies identified within the stated learning outcomes employed by these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Leadership Qualities, Competence
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Oliver J. Mason; Siobhan Collman; Stella Kazamia; Ioana Boureanu – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2024
This pilot study aims to assess the acceptability of Open University's training platform called Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training course (GICAST), as a means of improving cybersecurity knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours in undergraduate students using both quantitative and qualitative methods. A mixed-methods, pre-post…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Computer Science, Computer Security, Gamification
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Atwood, Phyllis J. – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2019
Under the leadership of Governor Ivey, the residents of Alabama are getting the post-secondary education needed for in-demand careers. The Alabama Community College System is tasked with promoting WIOA Title II adult education programs, postsecondary career and technical education programs, and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)…
Descriptors: Leadership, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Adult Education
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Haviland, Sara; Robbins, Steven – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
Workforce development and career and technical education (CTE) have long provided reliable pathways to middle skill jobs and a gateway to the middle class. Given recent changes in middle skills jobs, the education landscape, and federal policy priorities, the role of CTE in the U.S. educational landscape is evolving more rapidly, encompassing a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Skilled Workers, Educational Research
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