“It’s not just about graduating,” Randy Gardner, chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education, told host Mike Kallmeyer. “It’s about retaining [graduates] to be a part of our workforce.”
Gardner said Ohio’s institutions of higher learning and other training programs respond to the needs of employers, so that Ohio has a pipeline of skilled and available workers, both to keep human capital, and lure businesses to Ohio.
For example, Intel, which announced plans to build a multi-billion dollar semi-conductor manufacturing facility in Licking County. Billed as the largest single private-sector investment in state history, the project suggests an initial 10,000 jobs, both for Intel and its construction.
