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Direct linkMable J. Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States is currently experiencing a decline of skilled talent in the workforce, with healthcare occupations suffering the most due to a loss in workforce talent and the onset of an aging population. This talent shortage is attributed to a "skills gap." The current case study used qualitative methodology to examine the expansion…
Descriptors: Job Training, Job Skills, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education
Download full textShulock, Nancy; Moore, Colleen – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2013
The California Community Colleges are vital to closing the projected shortfall of Californians with a postsecondary credential and sustaining the state's economic competitiveness. Increasing the number of students who pursue and earn certificates and associate degrees in career technical education (CTE) fields is an important component of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Community Colleges, College Role
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
The demand for workers (employers, self-employed people and employees) having research training extends beyond the researcher workforce itself and is increasing. The research workforce is not uniform but segmented according to disciplines and the economic and sectoral contexts in which researchers work. The growth of cross-disciplinary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Block Grants, Research, International Cooperation
McCabe, Robert H., Ed. – 1997
Emphasizing the central role of community colleges in workforce development, this two-part monograph reviews the status of workforce development initiatives at the national, state, and local levels and provides descriptions of 10 exemplary programs at community colleges across North America. The first part focuses on the status of and operating…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Innovation
Groennings, Sven – Currents, 1989
Twelve things that colleges and universities can do to prepare themselves and the country for competitiveness in the global economy are outlined. They include business-school partnerships, program coordination and development, improved exchange efforts, and inclusion of global economics in the regular and continuing education curricula. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Role, Competition, Economics, Global Approach
Peddle, Michael T. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1995
This article argues that metropolitan universities are well suited to respond to workforce development and maintenance needs, and ways in which institutions can gather the information needed to target their response are examined. A Northern Illinois University study is offered as an example of such an effort. The role of metropolitan universities…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Role, Data Collection, Economic Development
Glenn, Gwendolyn – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1996
To meet growing health care industry manpower needs, colleges and universities are revamping their curricula, but are still turning down many students. Few black institutions offer health occupations programs, and adding new ones is financially difficult. Adjusting competency and licensing requirements to meet new needs is also difficult when…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Allied Health Occupations Education, Black Colleges, Certification
Warner, Laurie A. – 1993
In 1991, the Northwest Area Health Education Center in North Carolina conducted a needs assessment of area hospitals, revealing that Respiratory Care (RC) departments in Catawba and Alexander counties would require 29 technicians and therapists within 3 years. A survey of area high school students identified 44 students interested in RC. In…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Community Surveys
DuBois, Glenn, Comp. – 1997
This proceedings contains reports from nine states on welfare reform efforts and their effects on community colleges. Reports are presented from the following states: (1) South Carolina, reviewing the state's efforts to create an alliance with local businesses to train a self-sufficient work force; (2) Wyoming, revealing that a skills training…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Change Strategies, College Role, Community Colleges
PDF pending restorationGreen, C. Paul; Orsak, Charles G. – 1979
Undertaking of a systems approach to curriculum development for solar training led to (1) a feasibility study to determine the role of the community college in solar energy technology, (2) a market analysis to determine the manpower need, and (3) a task analysis for development of a curriculum for training solar energy technicians at Navarro…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Conservation Education, Curriculum Development
Bogaty, Lisa; And Others – 1994
A discussion is provided of the role of community colleges as the primary delivery sources for workforce retraining, using the Pellissippi State Workforce Innovation Program as a case study. The first sections of the paper document the need for worker retraining in the United States, reporting the Department of Labor Secretary's Commission on…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Grede, John F. – 1992
Contending that the nation's community colleges should improve the training of future workers by building a national job training program based on successful components already in existence, this paper reviews seven monographs published by the National Council for Occupational Education (NCOE) since 1985 which identify, highlight, or address…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, College Role, Community Colleges
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Community Coll. System. – 1989
The Commission to Study the Future of Community Colleges in Kentucky was established in 1988 to review the accomplishments of the Kentucky Community College System (KCCS) and to provide direction for the KCCS towards the year 2000. Developed as part of a collection of reports on the KCCS for use by the Commission, this two-part report reviews the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Planning, College Role, Community Colleges
