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Community Colleges Look Boldly into Future

Read about the inaugural Wyoming Summit on Community Colleges to help prepare colleges for their students' changing needs. More than 100 educators from all seven of Wyoming's community colleges were in attendance.

Student Veterans Do Better than Peers When Given Support Services :: Inside Higher Ed

This article discusses highlights from the recent report entitled, "Completing the Mission: A Pilot Study of Veteran Students’ Progress Toward Degree Attainment in the Post 9/11 Era,”  conducted by Operation College Promise and the Pat Tillman Foundation. Read here for details about the study and its findings.

Policy Summit: U.S. Higher Education Should Focus More on Employability

Higher education leaders and others convened in early November 2011 for a policy summit entitled, "Educating for Success: The Nexus Between College Completion and American Competitiveness." Read this article to hear the key points made by attendees, and to learn more about the challenges higher education leaders face in creating and implementing successful policies that serve traditional and nontraditional students while boosting graduation rates and enhancing graduates' chances for employability.

Minding the Midpoint Where Labor and Education Meet

A commentary on the work championed over time principally by Anthony Carnevale and the evolving understanding of the value of higher education and its complex relationship to job and career-building.

 

It costs more to drop out of college than remaining

Lots of discussion has been ongoing about how the financial state is so bad and young individuals shouldn't bother with college, and just get jobs. That all being said, there is actually more evidence to the contrary. Resource for this article: Dropping out of college more pricey than staying

 

Value of education under fire

 

National League of Cities' YEF Institute hiring Principal Associate, Post-Secondary Education

National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education, and Families seeks applicants with substantial postsecondary success experience for a newly elevated position helping lead the Communities Learning in Partnership (CLIP) initiative.  For more information, please see http://www.nlc.org/about-nlc/careers-at-nlc/principal-associate-post-secondary-education.

Career-Aligned Teaching and Learning

Amee Godwin blogs about her recent visit to a Bridge to Biotech class at City College of San Francisco. This innovative program offers students hands-on training in real lab situations, so that when they complete the program, they are prepared to follow industry regulations. The close ties between Bridge to Biotech faculty and the industry are key to the program's success. Read on to find out how Bridge to Biotech and its industry partners are working to expand internship opportunities in local laboratories. 

 

Video: Skilled Workforce, Education and Industry Change: Jennifer McNelly, TMI

How are manufacturers partnering with champions in education and government to develop qualified workers and advance systemic change in industry and education nationwide?

 

Jennifer McNelly, Sr. Vice President, The Manufacturing Institute, in conversation with Amee Godwin, of ISKME, for CompletionMatters.org, Conversations on College Completion, part 2.

 

 

Video: Industry-Aligned Credentials: Jennifer McNelly, TMI

Jennifer McNelly, Sr. Vice President, The Manufacturing Institute, in conversation with Amee Godwin, of ISKME, for CompletionMatters.org, Conversations on College Completion.

 

 

Video: Supports for Low-Skilled Adults in 11 States: Silja Kallenbach

Silja Kallenbach, Director, World Education, US Division, in conversation with Amee Godwin, of ISKME, for CompletionMatters.org, Conversations on College Completion

 

 

 

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