Community colleges must move beyond credential completion and prioritize ROI, economic mobility and workforce outcomes, according to the Community Vibrancy Framework.
More than 2.4 million students went to college last fall for certificates or "non-degree" credentials, part of a shift in consumer and employer demand for "just-in-time" learning, according to a report by National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
The unemployment gap is partly due to the increase in competition and changing employer expectations, said David Deming, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. "What you're seeing is a consequence of the success we've had in educating more people."
More than three-quarters of employees said they learned more in six months at their job than in their entire four-year education, according to Hult International Business School and Workplace Intelligence.
What you major in can have a big impact on your earning potential. Legacy Online School, a K12 online school, combed through data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers to see which degrees yield the highest starting salaries for recent graduates. Unsurprisingly, it found that STEM majors tend to make the most right […]
"There are a lot of things that have people freaked out about the election of the Trump administration, but sometimes disrupting a system is a good thing," Jane Swift, president of Education at Work, says on the latest University Business Podcast.
