One strategy for addressing the misalignment among postsecondary education, state workforce development programs and state economic development strategies is to create career pathways programs at community colleges where students are able to enroll in a defined track of coursework that leads to jobs in high-demand fields within a state or region.…

Faced with the challenge of responding to shifting tides in the American labor market through the development of innovative and relevant educational programs that directly facilitate regional economic growth, numerous community colleges have identified the implementation of small business development and entrepreneurship education initiatives as…

Provides an annotated bibliography of ERIC materials on the role of community colleges in economic development, including general articles, services to businesses, state economic development activities, and local economic development. (DMM)

This annotated bibliography is designed to assist rural leaders seeking ways to effectively structure successful job development projects in their communities. The 120 entries are listed in the main body alphabetically by author, and are grouped in the index into categories reflecting Thomas's "seven hallmarks of successful rural development": (1)…

The relationship between higher education and economic development is discussed to help Pennsylvania state officials in policy development. In addition to listing labor force development efforts of Carnegie Mellon University, Community College of Allegheny County, and University of Pittsburgh, Massachusetts' economic strategies are summarized. Six…

Volume 13 of T and D Abstracts, a continuation of CIRF Abstracts, contains 18 abstracts of documents published in Belgium, England, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, West Germany, and the United States, dealing with trends in national training policies and in personnel development in public and private enterprise. The abstracts are divided into the…

The references in this listing can be divided into two main categories: those which focus on the recognition and identification of women as critical potential human resources in national development, and those which describe and evaluate nonformal education programs whose primary clientele are women and families. Each item is listed in…

Rural development is understood to mean both the increased productivity of agriculture and other rural economic activities and the enhancement of the material well-being of the rural people (who comprise about 90% of Tanzania's 16 million population) through education, improved health, and better nutrition. Seven hundred and sixty-one books,…

This bibliography contains annotations of over 150 publications dealing with job creation and economic development. Focus is on recent publications, but some from the past 15 years are included to show the evolution of the job creation process. Materials are organized within the following nine major sections: (1) Human Resource Development, (2)…