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Download full textJenna Terrell; Diana Roldan-Rueda; Angela Estacion; Hayley Spencer; Cameron Sublet – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic created a historic, global disruption in the labor market. In the short term, the labor force participation rate dropped precipitously as workers were laid off or furloughed, especially in sectors that were most affected by social distancing protocols, such as hospitality, travel and leisure, and retail (Lund et al., 2021).…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Community Colleges, Vocational Schools
Direct linkJerome Thomas Countee Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
America needs community colleges to be the most adaptive and responsive sector of the higher education system in order to remain competitive in a global marketplace. Employers need community college career technical education (CTE) programs to be responsive to labor force needs and produce competent middle-skilled workers. Policymakers need…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Program Effectiveness, College Graduates
Jeff Strohl; Zachary Mabel; Kathryn Peltier Campbell – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
There are hundreds of local labor markets fuel the American economy, and each one is driven by the needs of the local area's mix of industries and the skills of its workers. For each labor market to operate at its peak potential, these needs and skills must align. Achieving alignment requires local education and training providers to convey…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Labor Supply, Job Skills, Vocational Education
James Eric Sewell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem to be addressed in this quantitative study was the education system's failure to produce individuals with the necessary skills to fulfill high-wage, high-demand technical positions in the market. The study examined whether career counseling self-efficacy levels varied across different experiences, such as educational background, years…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Self Efficacy, Community College Students, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedVinton, Justin; Van Noy, Michelle; Haviland, Sara; Blondin, Jo – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
This chapter describes how Clark State Community College used its TAACCCT grant in manufacturing to help drive organizational changes in the college to better serve local workforce needs.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grants, Adult Education, Job Training
Dannel P. Malloy; David Daigler – Maine Community College System, 2024
Maine's public universities and community colleges have a long tradition of working together. They are doing so now more closely than ever before given the needs of Maine students and employers and the institutions' imperative to achieve efficiencies and savings through partnership. As required by Public Law 2015, Chapter 261, the leaders of both…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Legislation, Advisory Committees, Strategic Planning
Carrier, Jonathan W.; Scull, W. Reed; Perkins, Mark A.; Schaffer, Joseph M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
This chapter examines institutionally funded free community college programs that address specific community workforce needs. Within the article, the authors showcase "Rediscover LCCC," a foundation-funded scholarship program at Laramie County Community College in Wyoming that pays students' tuition and fees for up to three years in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Needs, Labor Force Development, Tuition
Cathy Perry Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the United States, financial incentives have been used by the U.S. Government to reward performance at colleges and universities since the 1960s. Various case-studies have documented that incentivization programs may not result in positive outcomes. The purpose of this qualitative, multiple case study was to identify two-year, public colleges'…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Two Year Colleges, Educational Finance, Incentives
Atwell, Adam; Ecton, Walter; Klein, Sabrina; D'Amico, Mark M.; Sublett, Cameron – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
A new wave of federal legislation is drastically affecting how community colleges create and deliver programs in career and technical education (CTE). A key focus area shared by these federal policy changes is program-to-labor market alignment in which community colleges must utilize local labor market data to tailor their CTE programs to meet the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Alignment (Education)
Uhl, Kathryn; Hooker Bentley, Sarah; Zawatski, Justine; Gutierrez, Ana – Jobs for the Future, 2022
The Fresno K-16 Collaborative is a signature initiative of the California Governor's Council on Post-Secondary Education that aims to increase college degree attainment in high-demand industries, align educational preparation with the demands of regional employers, and close race and equity gaps by developing an integrated system and seamless set…
Descriptors: Engineering, Career Pathways, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees
Osterman, Paul – Brookings Institution, 2019
Since the late years of the Eisenhower Administration, when alarms were first raised about the impact of what was then called cybernation there have been cycles of interest in the role of training policy for addressing perceived national challenges. During the War on Poverty youth unemployment and juvenile delinquency motivated initiatives…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment, Job Training, Labor Needs
Snell, Darryn – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Manufacturing in advanced open economies has experienced significant disruption. Rapid technological change, outsourcing and off shoring have beset manufacturing resulting in a general and steady decline in manufacturing employment. Despite this turbulence, there remains a strong nostalgia for manufacturing resulting in frequent public policy…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Manufacturing Industry, Education Work Relationship, Job Skills
Asfaw, Abraham; Blais, Alexandre; Brown, Kenneth R.; Candelaria, Jonathan; Cantwell, Christopher; Carr, Lincoln D.; Combes, Joshua; Debroy, Dripto M.; Donohue, John M.; Economou, Sophia E.; Edwards, Emily; Fox, Michael F. J.; Girvin, Steven M.; Ho, Alan; Hurst, Hilary M.; Jacob, Zubin; Johnson, Blake R.; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel; Joynt, Robert; Kapit, Eliot; Klein-Seetharaman, Judith; Laforest, Martin; Lewandowski, H. J.; Lynn, Theresa W.; McRae, Corey Rae H.; Merzbacher, Celia; Michalakis, Spyridon; Narang, Prineha; Oliver, William D.; Palsberg, Jens; Pappas, David P.; Raymer, Michael G.; Reilly, David J.; Saffman, Mark; Searles, Thomas A.; Shapiro, Jeffrey H.; Singh, Chandralekha – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question:…
Descriptors: Program Development, Engineering Education, Labor Needs, Quantum Mechanics
Qian, Cheng; Koedel, Cory – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
We examine the potential to expand and diversify the production of university STEM degrees by shifting the margin of initial enrollment between community colleges and 4-year universities. Our analysis is based on statewide administrative microdata from the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development covering enrollees in all…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, College Enrollment, Enrollment
Pallanti, Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Key stakeholders expect colleges to have relationships with employers in their communities that will connect students to relevant internships and to jobs soon after graduation and to offer continuing education opportunities so that laid-off workers can retool their skills to meet emerging labor market needs and incumbent workers can upskill for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Business Relationship, Grants, Federal Aid
