Content tagged with “Community Colleges”
The community college sector faces an urgent leadership challenge that also offers unprecedented opportunity. According to a recent survey by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC),...
Tags: Higher Education, Leadership, Community Colleges Attendance is by invitation only though the event will be webcast at www.aspeninstitute.org/live. The College Excellence Program will announce the 2013 winner and finalists-with-distinction of...
Tags: Higher Education, Aspen Prize, Community Colleges Over the past year, we have learned a lot about the relationship between college graduates’ employment and earnings outcomes on the one hand, and the degrees they earn and colleges they attend on the...
Tags: Labor Market, College Excellence, Community Colleges, Higher Education The Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program (CEP) works to identify and replicate college practices and policies aimed at significantly improving student outcomes. A central way CEP pursues this...
Tags: Guides, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Labor Market For a number of years, employers have expressed concerns about the Skills Gap – the perceived lack of qualified employees to fill the positions that employers have available. Employers in the...
Tags: Skills Training, Community Colleges, Skills gap, Workforce Development, employment, Job Training We were thrilled that community colleges were a topic of discussion during the first presidential debate. Both President Obama and Governor Romney underscored the critical need for businesses to...
Tags: Vocational Education, College Excellence, Community Colleges, Higher Education We were thrilled that community colleges were a topic of discussion during the first presidential debate. Both President Obama and Governor Romney underscored the critical need for businesses to...
Tags: Vocational Education, College Excellence, Community Colleges, Higher Education As candidates present their plans for job growth during this election, we look at a critical component of training the next generation labor force: community colleges. In the Aspen Workforce...
Tags: Election 2012, Community Colleges, Workforce Strategies Initiative, Workforce Development Skills for America’s Future (SAF) invites you to an upcoming webinar, Skills for America’s Future Introduces the Global Corporate College (GCC), at 2pm on September 12, 2012. GCC is a consortium of...
Tags: Community Colleges, Skills for America's Future, Skills gap, Global Corporate Colleges, multi-site employers, standardized training 
