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Working Learners and Work Colleges: Innovating at the Intersection of Education and Life

ACE — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:06:25 +0000

“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” —Arundhati RoyFinancial Times, April 3, 2020 In the early months of COVID-19, novelist Arundhati Roy suggested that the trauma and tragedy of the pandemic could be the gateway to ...

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Bringing Jobs and Workers Together in the New Skills Economy

ACE — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:51:00 +0000

By Louis Soares and Amber Garrison Duncan There are nearly 1 million unique credentials offered in the United States, including certificates, micro-credentials, badges, and certifications in addition to traditional degrees. Yet learners are struggling to find pathways to economic mobility in a labor market that still values four-year degrees: Approximately 70 million adults have the skills to do middle- and high-wage ...

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Learner Records: If You Build It, Will They Use It?

Laurie Arnston — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:16:31 +0000

By Louis Soares This post is presented as part of ACE’s Education Blockchain Initiative, which aims to identify ways that blockchain can improve connections between education and employment. Apply by Oct. 30 to be part of the Blockchain Innovation Challenge, designed to explore both the opportunities and the risks of using blockchain in higher education. Today’s students stop and restart their ...

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Rethinking Community College Workforce Education: Eliminating the Dead End

Laurie Arnston — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:25:53 +0000

By Mark M. D’Amico Community colleges have many complementary missions, and educational offerings typically fall within four main categories: credit-based education leading to university transfer, credit-based career education yielding certificates and degrees, developmental education, and noncredit education focused on job skills or community interests. Practically speaking, these distinct buckets define course and program delivery, but when it comes to transfer, mobility, ...

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Entrepreneurial Mindset as a Marketable Skill

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:47:50 +0000

By Charles M. Cook This post is the fourth in a series from the Association of Chief Academic Officers. In 2015, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board adopted a new Strategic Plan for Higher Education called 60x30TX. The intent of the plan is to ensure that, by 2030, at least 60 percent of Texans aged 25–34 would have a postsecondary certificate or degree. ...

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New Tuition Model at Hiram College Offers Educational, Career, and Financial Benefits

Laurie Arnston — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:46:33 +0000

By Lori Varlotta Calls from the general public and elected officials for U.S. colleges and universities to develop more relevant curricula, pave the college-to-career pathway, and offer affordable degrees are growing in strength and number. At Hiram College, a liberal arts institution in Ohio, we have been implementing systemic changes in an effort to respond to these calls and do the ...

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George Mason’s New Digital Technology Certification Is Preparing Today’s Grads for Tomorrow’s Economy

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:50:43 +0000

The new digital technology credit at George Mason University, designed with detailed guidance from several major business in the Washington area, helps ensure that graduates will have skills and extensive knowledge in fields like statistics, data visualization, and cybersecurity. The credential reflects the growing demand from employers for graduates who are flexible and literate in technology. While George Mason is the ...

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Urban Higher Education and Civic Engagement

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 15 May 2019 17:00:10 +0000

By John Marx John Marx is blogging about his year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts centered on the idea of “place” in American higher education leadership. Marx, professor and chair of the English Department at University of California, Davis, is spending his year working with President Elizabeth Hillman at Mills College in Oakland, California. Contrary to the notion that ...

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A Dream Pursued, A Dream Fulfilled: How a College Degree Can Transform Lives

ACE — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:28:35 +0000

By Novlette White and Ted Mitchell As ACE joins in the celebration of College Signing Day on May 1, we would like to share the postsecondary journeys of a mother and daughter that exemplify the benefits of earning a college degree. Bobbie Jo Williams was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where she graduated from high school in 1955. Although both ...

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Cuyahoga Community College Brings Class on Wheels to Working Professionals

ACE — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:00:54 +0000

Cuyahoga Community College, also known as Tri-C, is increasing workers’ access to skills training throughout Northeast Ohio’s manufacturing sector by bringing a mobile classroom directly to the workplace. The mobile training unit was created by Tri-C’s Manufacturing Technology Center of Excellence to help employees upgrade their skills to keep up with changing technology, as well as strengthen the pipeline for the ...

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Better Together: Higher Education and the Federal Government Explore Evidence for the Value of College Degrees

Laurie Arnston — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:43:49 +0000

By Stephanie Huie Policymakers, media, and a strong consumer advocacy movement continue to ask, “Is higher education really worth the cost?” A February 2018 Gallup poll, “Words Used to Describe ‘Higher Ed’ Make a Difference,” found that only 36 percent of Americans have a “great deal of confidence in higher education.” A 2017 report by the Pew Research Center—Sharp Partisan Divisions ...

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CSU Innovations In Developmental Education Will Support Those Who Need It Most

Laurie Arnston — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:45:47 +0000

By Timothy P. White The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) predicts that the state’s workforce will be short one million bachelor’s degrees by the year 2030. In the fall of 2016, the California State University (CSU) launched Graduation Initiative 2025, a bold effort to reduce that shortfall by doubling graduation rates, which, with growth in enrollment, will lead to an ...

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