Skills Gap

  • Report roundup
    By AACC 21st Century Center Staff
    December 15, 2022
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    Resurrecting a Dying Art in Automaking
    By AACC Staff
    June 4, 2015

    Macomb Community College in Michigan is helping fill the community’s need for skilled digital sculptors with clay modeling experience.

  • Rethinking the transcript
    By Jakob Schiller
    June 3, 2020

    A New Mexico community college is working with a group of other stakeholders to develop a new way to more easily track workers’ credentials and skills to better align them with workplace needs.

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    Rethinking Workforce Development
    By Dennis Pierce
    March 27, 2015

    By leveraging data as well as partnerships, Middlesex Community College is responding to the needs of area employers and rethinking workforce development.

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    Colleges Use Jobs Program to Lure Students
    By Corey Murray
    March 14, 2014

    With the help of a $500,000 federal grant, Illinois’ Waubonsee Community College is overhauling its advanced-manufacturing program in hopes of attracting more students. The college joins a growing list of institutions investing in new courses and facilities to secure future enrollments and satisfy economic demand.

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    Revamping Workforce Education in Arkansas
    By Emily Rogan
    May 21, 2015

    Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson recently signed into law three measures that support workforce-education initiatives, emphasize greater and improved collaboration between government agencies and provide competitive grant money for workforce-training programs and community colleges. See how one Arkansas community college might benefit.