Lifelong Learning

The seven most important changes community colleges can make to close California’s skills gap
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The skills gap is the biggest hurdle to economic prosperity for unemployed individuals, but there are some specific changes two-year colleges could make to help minimize the gap and improve completion and employment rates.

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California’s energy law driving need for bigger HVAC workforce
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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Skills gap creating an inadequate worker pipeline to fill demand for jobs like air conditioning and lighting control techs.

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California Community Colleges adopt major workforce action plan
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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Board of Governors approves list of 25 recommendations to reform the Colleges workforce training programs

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Inland Empire health care workforce hits the road to recovery
 150 150 Bill Britt
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Region’s physician-to-population ratio comparable to Arkansas and 16,000 health care jobs need to be filled by 2017.

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California must improve its pipeline of skilled workers and degrees
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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Skills gap will ensure state will fall short in filling need for college grads and middle-skilled workers.

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Growing the Central Valley Economy
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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Event highlighted ways to help the Central Valley thrive including putting a “face” on the Valley and building coalitions to transition to the future economy.

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Colleges work to close labor force’s skills gap
 150 150 Sydney Kamlager
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Op-ed: “Skills gap” is threatening California’s economic growth and keeping people in poverty.

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