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Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
Along with changing industry market conditions and emerging technologies, federal investments in new energy and transportation infrastructure targeted at limiting the effects of climate change are predicted to dramatically reshape the workforce. In the next ten years, as many as 9 million high-quality jobs will be created to implement new energy…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Labor Force Development, Retraining
Stone, James R., III – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
In the midst of an economic recession, double digit unemployment rates, and financial bailouts lies a promise of economic recovery through investments and training for a green economy and green collar occupations. This article discusses the impact of the green revolution on job creation and on career and technical education (CTE). The green…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Sustainable Development, Vocational Education, Economic Development
Kisner, Mary J.; Marks, Renee – 1998
A Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) curriculum was developed for a new job title, the "multiskilled health technician." A traditional task analysis method was not feasible, since the occupation does not exist. Instead, the project defined the occupation and developed the duties and tasks as a hybrid of many…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Center for New Work of Flint, MI. – 1987
The Future of Work project grew out of an essay of the same title by Frithjof Bergmann, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan. In spring 1983, Professor Bergmann and a colleague, Richard Gull, founded the Center for New Work of Flint in Michigan, where the problems besieging the U.S. auto industry were focusing attention on the…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Demand Occupations
Levinson, Cynthia Y. – 1984
In order to learn more about the problems of educating students to adequately prepare them for jobs in today's information economy, leaders in education, government, business, and civic organizations met in June 1983 at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) in Austin, Texas. The symposium participants came from and research…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Bangasser, Vi; And Others – 1984
This project was designed to provide a model for secondary and postsecondary educators in planning and developing a well-articulated competency-based delivery system focusing on high-technology training. The model was to be implemented in several vocational-technical programs so that secondary students would acquire the necessary competencies to…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Communications, Community Colleges, Competence
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. – 1992
This paper, one of a series from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's project "Higher Education and the Economy of the West," summarizes and analyzes economic development and higher education master plans in 16 western states, looking particularly at how planning for economic development and higher education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Planning, Curriculum Development, Economic Development