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Download full textBeer, Allison; Bray, Jacob; Calloway, Marcia – Association of Community College Trustees, 2018
Community colleges and businesses have a shared interest in preparing students and existing workers to be successful in their careers. Community colleges seek to educate and train individuals in their community to have the knowledge and skills for current jobs and long-term career opportunities. Employers seek employees with both job-specific…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Labor Force Development, Community Colleges, School Business Relationship
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2013
Washington could add as many as 110,000 new jobs by 2017 by closing skill gaps--the mismatch between the skills people have and those employers need, according to a March 2013 Washington Roundtable report. STEM professions face the most critical demand. Of the 25,000 jobs vacant for three months or more due to a shortage of qualified candidates,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Two Year Colleges, STEM Education
Direct linkVillachica, Steven W.; Stepich, Donald A. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2010
With the current economic downturn and signs of an emerging recovery, executives are trying to determine how to best use their organizations' funds and resources. This may mean downsizing human resource departments and eliminating positions for training personnel. The authors offer five strategies drawn from the professional literature to survive…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Resource Allocation, Administrator Attitudes, Transfer of Training
Holton, Elwood F., III, Ed. – 1996
This document contains papers from 35 symposia as well as 2 keynote presentations at the 1996 Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) conference. The symposia are on the following topics: (1) HRD town forum; (2) HRD and business outcomes; (3) action learning; (4) evaluation issues in HRD; (5) rethinking diversity; (6) HRD in selected nations;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Corporate Education, Foreign Countries
1996
This document contains two keynote papers presented at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). "Partnering for Research: The Ford Design Institute/UGA (University of Georgia) Research Project" (Karen E. Watkins, Lewis J. Bellinger) describes the Ford Design Institute's Manager as Instructor project and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Research, Employer Employee Relationship, Higher Education
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This document contains four papers presented at a symposium on the status of human resource development (HRD) research moderated by Barry Johansen at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development. "An Exploration of the Type of Research Appearing in the AHRD Conference Proceedings" (David E. Arnold) reviews and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Conferences, Educational Cooperation
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
This compendium, which is intended as a resource for state and local policymakers and practitioners to use in addressing work force development issues in their states, describes successful projects based on various work force development strategies in the areas of collaboration, empowerment, and systematic change. Some of the models included were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
2001
This document contains three papers on global knowledge transfer issues and human resource development (HRD). "Indigenizing Knowledge Transfer" (Gary N. McLean) explores examples of HRD in which ethnocentric perspectives predominate and argues that, unless a HRD develops a global perspective, efforts to transfer knowledge within academia…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis
Council on Competitiveness, Washington, DC. – 1998
This document reports on how key stakeholders in work force preparedness nationwide are responding to pressures of the skills race. Part 1 presents an overview of the skills challenge and the economic and social consequences of failing to meet the challenge. Part 2 examines the impact of the skills shortage on major stakeholders and explains how…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Change
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1999
Designed for Ohio educators responsible for planning programs to prepare high school students for careers in human resources/services, this document presents an overview of Ohio's Integrated Technical and Academic Competencies (ITAC) system of career-focused education and specific information about the human resources/services ITAC career cluster.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Career Development, Career Education
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria. – 2001
This document contains 95 papers and summaries of 5 poster sessions from an Australian conference on putting vocational education and training (VET) research to work. The following are among the areas covered in the papers: factors affecting VET graduates' employability over time; technical and further education (TAFE) institutes as models of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Case Studies
2000
This document contains 18 papers from the partnership for vocational education and training (VET) section of an international conference on VET for lifelong learning in the information era. The following are papers are included: "School, TAFE (Technical and Further Education), and University Links, in Pursuit of a Seamless Pathway"…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Learning, Articulation (Education)
Aliaga, Oscar A., Ed. – 2001
This document contains 127 papers and innovative sessions and three poster sessions presented at a conference on human resource development (HRD). A program overview, author index, keyword index, and a CD-ROM version of the document are also included. The papers are grouped by the conference's 44 symposiums, which were devoted to the following…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adjustment (to Environment), Administrators, Adult Learning
