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Alisha Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined higher education workforce development practitioners' views on incorporating innovation ecosystems into workforce models to address U.S. workforce pipeline gaps and evolving labor market needs. While current programs have some success, they often fail to prepare graduates with knowledge and specific skills for rapid entry into…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Labor Needs, Education Work Relationship
David Henry Tanner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Workforce development is one of the top issues for state higher education executives today. Employers are actively looking for ways to address skill gaps and labor shortages in their companies. To address these talent gaps, states are aligning their academic program approval process with state workforce needs. Minimal research has explored the…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Higher Education, Labor Needs, State Policy
Alice Jensen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
U.S. policies such as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 and the Americans with Disabilities Act support the inclusion of adults with disabilities in all areas of employment. Through WIOA, the federal government required public entities to provide training and help job seekers with disabilities access high-quality, competitive,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Labor Force Development
Sarah Bollinger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Scholars debate the criticism higher education has received for not adequately preparing students for careers that reflect employer and industry needs and low job placement rates (Holzner, 2017; Monis, 2018; Niu et al., 2019). The skills desired for today's qualified applicants continue to change, and employers are experiencing difficulty finding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Career Readiness, Employment Potential, Job Skills
Mike Morris – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To meet the employment demands in the information technology industry, it is crucial for higher education institutions to design sustainable curricula to prepare students with the knowledge and skills needed to enter and stay competitive in an ever-changing workforce. A review of one Mid-Atlantic University's information technology programs…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Dolce, Justin Salvatore – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Providing students with verifiable 21st-century skills and competencies has become increasingly more challenging for Higher Education Institutions (HEI). This study sought to investigate why institutional data from a college in the northeast reported lower levels of acquiring job- or work-related skills compared to other colleges in the system's…
Descriptors: College Students, Alumni, Employers, 21st Century Skills
David R. E. Halla – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study investigated the use of formalized cybersecurity apprenticeships as a means of workforce development to meet the needs of employers seeking to fill cybersecurity positions. The study employed a quantitative analysis using a constructivist grounded theory approach utilizing a survey with questions based on the findings of apprenticeships…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Labor Force Development, Apprenticeships, Models
Krytus, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Public health is a profession that focuses on preventing disease, disability and death, and promotes health policies and programs at a population level (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] Foundation, 2019). The field has experienced a decades-long workforce shortage where on average 250,000 more trained workers are needed in the…
Descriptors: Public Health, Graduate Students, Success, Public Sector
Brian M. Wooten – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship marked a significant advancement in education by offering expanded opportunities for Georgia students earning a high school GPA of 3.00 or higher to attend a University System of Georgia (USG) institution. This quantitative study examined individuals who earned a bachelor's degree…
Descriptors: Scholarships, College Students, College Graduates, Majors (Students)
Steven Karl Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The general decline of the Diploma in Nursing (DIP) nurse has been a product of nursing governing bodies and their views on patient care needs. Although all nurses must pass the same NCLEX-RN exam to become a registered nurse (RN), DIP nurses are not educated in management, research, and other advanced areas, but they are trained and needed for…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Career and Technical Education, Rural Areas, Nursing Education
Robin R. Donovan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A practice that dates back centuries, apprenticeship is a workforce development model that has gained recent attention in the American higher education system. The researcher conducted a review of existing literature that included apprenticeships in higher education and other models of community college workforce development. Existing literature…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Apprenticeships, Labor Force Development
Joshua K. Gorsuch – ProQuest LLC, 2021
I explain changes in the wage structure favoring more skilled workers since 1980 using job task data from the Occupational Information Network and wage data from the March CPS. Using recently developed partialling out estimators including debiased machine learning, I obtain wage effects for a suite of tasks, including a novel computer task…
Descriptors: Wages, Labor Economics, Labor Force Development, Bias
Ashlea Laveen Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the digital literacy of Gen Z employees in higher education and provide implications for HRD research and practice and contribute to the HRD literature on Gen Z employees in the 21st century workforce. Three research questions guided my study: How do Gen Z employees in higher education experience digital…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Age Groups, Videoconferencing, Employee Attitudes
Taylor, Marcus A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research indicated that the workforce would require significant upskilling and reskilling over the next several years for organizations and their people to remain competitive in changing markets. This qualitative case study explored how human resources development (HRD), a mechanism leveraged to develop an organization's human capital through…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Capital, Job Skills, Employees
Katie Marie Gutierrez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Organizations need help keeping their infrastructure and data secure because cybercrimes and cyberattacks are rising. It is known that the highest risk to any organization is the risk that end users present (Aljeaid, 2020; Yuan, 2021). The problem to be addressed in this study is that end-user employees' behavior remains the biggest reason for…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Employees, Responsibility