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Williams, Stelfanie Sherrell – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of older adult dislocated workers who participated in community college non-credit workforce training programs. The research questions guiding the study were: (a) what are the experiences of older adult dislocated workers who attend community college non-credit workforce…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges, Noncredit Courses
Wilson, Delfina Acosta – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In Mississippi, the bulk of the responsibility to conduct workforce training falls on the community colleges. With the recent trends of large industry relocating overseas, layoffs, and plant closures, these challenges have become prevalent in rural America. Through the development and delivery of workforce programs to local business and industry,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Needs, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Hall, Donna Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Beginning in the 1970s, low-wage manufacturing areas in advanced industrialized countries experienced deindustrialization and worker dislocation as transnational corporations left for sites of lower-cost labor. In response, communities sought to rebuild their economies and pursue new employment opportunities in the restructured labor markets of…
Descriptors: Structural Unemployment, Economic Progress, Human Capital, Dislocated Workers