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Amechi, Mauriell H. – New America, 2022
Despite the growing popularity of WBL, the community college and workforce development fields need greater transparency and clarity on the design of these programs to broaden workforce pathways, ensure the transferability of exemplary program models, and support the advancement of equitable outcomes for all students, especially learners from…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship
Powell, M.; Hatch, M. A.; Fians, E.; Shinert, A.; Richie, D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
Like many colleges funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's TAACCCT program, the goal of the Northeast Resiliency Consortium (NRC) (a Round Three grantee) was to enhance the capacity of colleges to accelerate learning, ensure that students attain industry-recognized credentials, foster innovative employer partnerships, use new technologies, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Resilience (Psychology), Labor Force Development, Consortia
Richard, Alan – Jobs For the Future, 2015
Advanced manufacturing is growing and thriving in the United States. Companies are in great need of reliable employees who can communicate well, effectively make decisions, and are interested in long-term careers with opportunity for advancement. Employers have identified a need for a more robust talent pipeline to narrow America's skills gap--a…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Skilled Workers, Labor Force Development, Training
Massachusetts State Executive Office of Economic Affairs, Boston. – 1987
The Workplace Education Initiative was created in Massachusetts to provide workers with the opportunity to develop basic literacy skills, to increase employer and union awareness of the extent of functional illiteracy among workers as well as its cost, to develop a number of partnership models that link the acquisition of basic education skills…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs