Workforce

California task force approves blueprint for closing skills gap
150 150 John Guenther

Group formed to craft strategies for boosting California’s workforce via the California Community College system submitted their final recommendations this week.

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Career pathways point the way to boosting California’s workforce
150 150 Bill Britt

Getting students, counselors and colleges on the same path that connects courses with actual, in-demand careers is critical to the future of the California workforce.

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Summit: Employers want, need bigger role in workforce training
150 150 Justin Ewers

For California to develop the workforce necessary to remain globally competitive, employers must be given ways to play a larger role in the state’s workforce training system, the California Economic Summit emphasized in a letter to the task force charged with making community colleges more responsive to the state’s economy.

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VIDEO: Impact summit harnessed California’s innovation economy to tackle big challenges
150 150 John Guenther

Wrap-up of gathering that brought together problem solvers in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to take on the state’s most intractable social and environmental problems.

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California employers conduct a hard search for soft skills in the workforce
150 150 Bill Britt

Many workers lack not just basic office skills but also essential entrepreneurial and career management skills, say employers looking to hire.

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Agriculture and early college mixing well in California’s Central Valley
150 150 Ed Coghlan

Innovative workforce program links high school students to college to make them career-ready and college-ready in California’s major agricultural region

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Task Force: Future of California economy depends on funding middle-skill job education
150 150 John Guenther

California group looking at closing skills gap tackles the puzzle of boosting funding for career technical education and how to get community colleges to align the courses so students and industry don’t get the runaround.

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California’s workforce fuels nation-leading creative economy
150 150 Tracy Hudak

Reports recommend increased funding and creative industry career pathways created by workforce development, higher education and private sectors.

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California community college combats Latino higher education gap
150 150 Nadine Ono

Santa Rosa Junior College programs create clearer pathways into post-secondary programs for local high school students.

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