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Businesses and Community Colleges Must Team Together

The current edition of Community College Journal features an article on mutually beneficial partnerships between community colleges and businesses. "Working With Industry," by Ellen Ullman, relates how building these partnerships within communities can aid community colleges not only with funding, but also the development and implementation of programs of study that result in students completing and obtaining credentials with labor market value.

Businesses and Community Colleges Must Team Together

The current edition of Community College Journal features an article on mutually beneficial partnerships between community colleges and businesses. "Working With Industry," by Ellen Ullman, relates how building these partnerships within communities can aid community colleges not only with funding, but also the development and implementation of programs of study that result in students completing and obtaining credentials with labor market value.

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Building the STEM Workforce of Tomorrow

Submitted by Anonymous on 4 June, 2012 - 09:52

America needs a workforce skilled in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and a notable group of companies and organizations is uniting to ensure that the nation gets the message. This summer, June 27 – 29, thousands of education, policy and industry thought leaders will convene in Dallas, Texas, for STEM Solutions 2012, a groundbreaking leadership summit that will bring the best minds and best practices together on a national stage to open the conversation and develop solutions to the STEM skills shortage.

Building the STEM Workforce of Tomorrow

America needs a workforce skilled in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and a notable group of companies and organizations is uniting to ensure that the nation gets the message. This summer, June 27 – 29, thousands of education, policy and industry thought leaders will convene in Dallas, Texas, for STEM Solutions 2012, a groundbreaking leadership summit that will bring the best minds and best practices together on a national stage to open the conversation and develop solutions to the STEM skills shortage.

Workplace Flexibility as a Talent Development Tool

Corporate Voices for Working Families’ member companies tell us that what “keeps them up at night” is how to retain top talent and ensure the future workforce, particularly hourly employees.

Businesses and Community Colleges: Building on Success to Reclaim the American Dream

 

At a time when national leaders are looking to America’s more than 1,200 community colleges to help fuel an economic transformation, a new report from our colleagues at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) spotlights both great opportunities and serious challenges ahead.

Corporate Voices and Its Partner Companies Featured at White House Event Launching Summer Jobs Plus Initiative

 

Corporate Voices and a number of our partner companies played a key role in a White House event that was held January 5 to launch the Summer Jobs Plus Initiative.

Corporate Voices for Working Families

A Unique Voice Bridging Business and Policy to Shape the Competitiveness of the Workforce and Workplace

Corporate Voices for Working Families, a leading non-profit buisness membership organization, engages the business community in advancing postsecondary education completion and workforce readiness training through its Learn and Earn initiative. This initiative seeks to identify, promote and encourage innovative partnerships between employers and community colleges to help low-income young adults earn a living while continuing their education. This work is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its Postsecondary Success Strategy.

Goodwill initiative to scale up projects

"They are familiar stories. A woman studying to be a nurse gets sidetracked to take care of her ill mother. A foreign-born doctor must start over on a degree because his credentials are not recognized here. A mother works to support her family but needs more flexible hours at her job to be with her children."

"These are the types of situations that partnerships between community colleges and Goodwill International Industries (GII) are targeting to ensure that these people don’t lose out on getting an education. Of the 158 Goodwill organizations around the country, more than half have some sort of partnership with a community college, according to Brad Turner-Little, director of workforce development at GII."

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