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"We're trying to build that link between employers and the necessary skills for entry-level employment." Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht talks about need for better conversation...
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
“Haven’t you concluded that we are looking in the wrong places and coming to the wrong conclusions?” University of Pennsylvania Professor Peter Cappelli argues that historically speaking, there is...
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
"Companies that have been on the sidelines, can’t stay on the sidelines." Jim Ryan asserts that workforce training must happen through public-private partnerships.
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
“We’ve got a 88% placement rate six months after graduation” Bryan Albrecht points to success in job placement for his students through partnerships with business, but points out the challenges his...
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
“The short answer is no.” Jim Ryan says this is a solvable problem and businesses are beginning to see the supply chain challenge as a matter of competitiveness.
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
“We are asking students to be venture capitalists.” Peter Cappelli describes how poorly employers have done in predicting what they want. Students are left guessing where to target their studies....
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
Jim Ryan, Yonnie Leung, and Bryan Albrecht respond.
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
Peter Cappelli, Bryan Albrecht and Yonnie Leung respond.
Topics: Training and Placing Workers in the Skilled Trades 
In conflict areas around the globe, the best diplomatic efforts still often leave communities torn by patterns of distrust. Can the arts help to transcend prejudice and enable understanding and...
Interviewed by Walter Isaascon, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
