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Companies are putting serious money into training bc of an overall need for more talent in tech and bc the industry has severe challenges with equity and diversity. “We can’t afford not to,” says Kevin Kelly, director of Amazon Web Services education programs. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/work-shift-exp…

"We’ve seen a change in the calculus for employers in the tech industry in ways that we wouldn’t have seen five years ago," says Angela Hanks of ETA U.S. Department of Labor. Our explainer series looks at what that means for new #education paths in tech. #asugsvsummit workshift.opencampusmedia.org/new-pathways-i…

Deloitte jumps into bachelor's completion with Arizona State University and Northeastern U.—part of a larger project led by GetSet. Two years of tuition for a two-year job commitment. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/deloitte-will-…

Few things I’ve ever edited haunt me the way this one does. I cannot forget the descriptions of what high-velocity bullets do to children’s bodies: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

👇From the former executive editor of the The Seattle Times and now a dean at Temple University

For more than 60 years motor-vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for young people in America. But since 2017 guns have killed more people between the ages of one and 24 ⬇️ econ.trib.al/0zzgC81

My home.

Enrollment in undergrad certificates—a type of short-term program everybody says they want—fell 5.2% this spring, after holding steady in the fall. A blip? Certificates not short enough?

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For decades, society has paid low wages for the jobs of caring for others — and the colleges that educated those workers didn't need to to think about the moral implications of that. That thinking has changed, writes Kathryn Masterson. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/low-pay-in-hel…

"Labeling short-term programs that lead to low-wage jobs as 'low-quality' obscures the true problem: the labor market failure that leads to the prevalence of undervalued, low-wage jobs in today’s economy," writes Michelle Van Noy of Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/in-debate-over…

Community colleges have been many things. I wrote about what they could be. Thanks to Paul Fain and Elyse Ashburn workshift.opencampusmedia.org/the-workforce-…

As apprenticeships take off in the US, #unions are in the driver’s seat. +Of the 50 largest registered #apprenticeships, 50%+ are run by unions, according to our analysis of fed data. The Building Trades, AFL-CIO ✊, UAW workshift.opencampusmedia.org/as-apprentices…

#Highered needs to produce 2-3x the number of semiconductor engineers in the next 5 yrs—not to mention other skilled workers for fabrication plants. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/chips-and-scie…

As the geography of jobs shift in the US, it presents challenges for colleges like SouthwestTN, TVCC, Central Georgia Tech, Brightpoint Community College and the students they serve. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/as-rural-job-m…

Apropos of today’s news that Sen. Sasse is likely leaving the Senate to be the next president of FLORIDA

ISAs, once the purview of bootcamps and other for-profits, are starting to take off among state governments and nonprofits under a new name, Lilah Burke reports. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/income-share-a…

Looks like the University of Phoenix may have a buyer soon. Last winter Paul Fain and I talked to them about the university's overhaul and the likely sale to a nonprofit. workshift.opencampusmedia.org/remember-phoen…

Quite a headline on WSJ editorial page:

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