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Download full textMoore, 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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Direct linkSylvester, 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
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
Karnes, Sandra Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This ethnographic case study investigated second year college students who participated in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program at a technical college in northeastern Pennsylvania. In order to understand how learners stayed motivated in a college setting, I selected participants who were in their second year of the TAA program. A total of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Technical Education, Postsecondary Education, Semi Structured Interviews
Francis, Caroline M. – National Poverty Center, 2013
This bibliography summarizes recent research on the structure and effectiveness of workforce development programs. While the term "workforce development" can mean many things, this document focuses on programs to help low-skill, low-wage and displaced workers increase their employment and earnings, as well as labor market trends that…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Labor Force Development, Low Income Groups, Labor Market
Hilliard, Tom – Jobs for the Future, 2011
In 2007, Michigan undertook a bold mission: to retrain tens of thousands of adults to qualify for jobs in emerging and expanding sectors of the economy. The state's proposal to jobless, dislocated, and low-income residents was simple but appealing: enroll in up to two years of postsecondary education, and Michigan would cover up to $5,000 in…
Descriptors: Credentials, Economic Progress, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges
