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The new "talent strong" plan takes a more expansive view of postsecondary attainment, setting goals for older adults and counting non-college certificates for the first time.
The latest on the pandemic’s impact on children, higher ed’s mounting challenges, and long-term labor shortages. Also, Amazon backs community colleges and new evidence on college majors’ impact on inequity in earnings.
The challenges community colleges face are daunting—but Bill Pink, president of Grand Rapids Community College, believes this could be their finest hour. If they seize it.
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Issue 40: A Lost Generation
The latest on the pandemic’s impact on children, higher ed’s mounting challenges, and long-term labor shortages. Also, Amazon backs community colleges and new evidence on college majors’ impact on inequity in earnings.
Issue 38: Starting early
A look at how companies are seeking career pipelines for high school students, including the millions who are being homeschooled. Also, the boom in cannabis credentials and a new potential setback for income-share agreements.
Remember Phoenix?
The University of Phoenix, once the largest university in the country, has shrunk dramatically. Its story isn't just one of attrition, though—but also of getting back to its roots as a…
‘Stranded credits’ needlessly stall education, careers
Policies that deny students access to their transcripts because of college debt disproportionately lock low-income learners and people of color out of opportunity. Colleges and policymakers can change that, writes Sosanya Jones of…
Cannabis credentials take off
The cannabis job market is exploding, and degrees and certifications in the field are starting to follow suit.
Issue 37: Vanishing for-profits
A temperature check with the University of Phoenix, which has pared back its offerings and may be poised for a sale. Also, dropping the ban on paying medical assistant students and research on career prep for undergrads.
Many students have career plans in place, but not networks
NSSE, the gold standard for student engagement, took its first in-depth look at career prep and found that students need more help building social capital.
Some answers, more questions on manufacturing certifications
People who earn certain manufacturing credentials are more likely to end up in the industry and to see their wages increase—but lots of questions remain.
Two Hispanic brothers wanted to go to college in Colorado. Here’s why only one made it.
Two brothers saw higher education as a way into careers that would pay well and let them work hard with their minds, not their backs. Only one made it to college.