The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.
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Displaying What We Do: Convenings
Economic Opportunities Program
There are many employers that have successful partnerships with community colleges. These partnerships take many different forms. Businesses and community colleges collaborate on curricula...
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Economic Opportunities Program
America’s 21st century competitiveness depends on a workforce that can contribute up-to-date skills, which is why Skills for America’s Future believes worker training and development is one of the...
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Economic Opportunities Program
In an increasingly competitive global economy, America’s economic strength depends on the education and skills of its workers. Skills for America’s Future, an employer-led initiative of the Aspen...
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The Food Security Strategy Group is a multi-program collaboration between the Energy & Environment, Global Health and Development, and Middle East Programs at the Aspen Institute, focused on long...
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Event | May 15, 2013 |
Washington, DC
Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century
This lunchtime discussion will explore the skills gap in manufacturing and selected efforts to creatively address the problem. The opening presentation by Craig Giffi of Deloitte will update its...
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Event | June 21, 2013 |
Washington, DC
College Excellence Program
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),...
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Event | October 1, 2012 |
Washington, DC, United States
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program will release a report of the Forum on the Freedom to Communicate, Freedom and Connectivity: Advancing the Freedom to Communicate in the Americas...
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Economic Opportunities Program
May 2013"Inaugural Luminant Power Track Class Graduates, Luminant Power Track, May 10http://www.luminantpowertrack.com/news.php?NID=30April 2013"Working Together to Bridge the Skills Gap"...
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