A lot has been written about the growing need for skilled manufacturing workers. After losing more than 15 percent of total U.S. manufacturing jobs during the height of the Great Recession, many of those to cheaper labor overseas, the nation’s manufacturing sector has proved remarkably resilient. Since the end of the recession the sector has […]
Skills Gap Articles
Mich. Colleges Team Up to Address Region’s Talent Gap
Community colleges have long prided themselves on their ability to nimbly adjust to economic needs. But what good are job training programs if students don’t know they exist? That’s the thinking behind Michigan’s new Career Jump Start program. Created in response to Gov. Rick Snyder’s statewide Economic and Education Summits [PDF], the initiative, which includes […]
Programs Recruit Women for STEM Careers
Will the female scientists, tech gurus, engineers and mathematicians please stand up? Community colleges across the country may be seeing more women graduate with STEM degrees, in part because more two-year schools are establishing promising practices to offer more flexibility and training. According to the latest Commerce Department report on the gender gap in the […]
CPA Group Expands Scholarships to Community College Transfers
College is expensive. And the longer a student attends, the pricier it gets. An associate degree might cost a few thousand dollars; a bachelor’s degree — depending on where a student enrolls — will cost double, even triple, that. And that’s not including graduate school or the need for professional credentials after college. Take accountants, […]
Revamped Job Training Programs Lure More Students
With enrollments beginning to decline in the face of a resurgent economy and budgets being stretched to the brink, you might think that investing in new job-training programs and facilities would be the last thing on administrators’ minds. But the old do-more-with-less mentality has done little to dampen enthusiasm at Illinois’ Waubonsee Community College (WCC), […]