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Moore, Colleen; Tan, Connie – Education Insights Center, 2020
This final brief in the series focuses on policy options that can foster more innovation and address challenges in career education (CE) program development. It is based on earlier research for a series of reports called "Career Opportunities," aimed at identifying ways that state and system policy can best support the CE mission of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Education, Educational Policy, Barriers
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Sylvester, Paul; Myran, Steve – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This study synthesizes lessons learned about the promising role of "career navigators" at community colleges to aid students in the transitions through disjunctures in their careers. Career navigators are student support personnel who follow students from recruitment, through their studies or training programs, to job placement. Findings…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Career Planning, Career Counseling
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Mohammadi, Arefeh; Grosskopf, Kevin; Killingsworth, John – Education Sciences, 2020
Workforce pipelines are essential to sustain a productive workforce in an increasingly competitive, high-tech environment. Advanced automation, sensors, materials and data analytics will increase the need for highly skilled workers in the manufacturing (and manufactured construction) sector. Attracting and developing the next-generation workforce…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering Education, Technology Education
Pearson, Juliana; Leeds, Daniel – CNA Corporation, 2017
Southwest Tennessee Community College (Southwest) received a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant from the U.S. Department of Labor in 2013 to fund the Southwest Solutions program (Solutions). The goal of Solutions is to prepare, credential, and place veterans, dislocated workers, and unemployed or…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grants, Manufacturing Industry, Job Training
Mokher, Christine; Pearson, Juliana – CNA Corporation, 2016
CNA Education served as the third-party evaluator for the Connecticut Health and Life Sciences Career Initiative (HL-SCI), a statewide initiative funded from September 2012 to March 2016 through a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The purpose of HL-SCI is to prepare…
Descriptors: Job Training, Veterans, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges