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The Institute for a Competitive Workforce will be attending the Nebraska Chamber Century 2012: Economic Futures Forum to discuss the report, Leaders & Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Public Postsecondary Education.
The Institute for a Competitive Workforce will be discussing the recent report, Leaders & Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Public Postsecondary Education at the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released the study, Leaders & Laggards, A State by State Report Card on Public Postsecondary Education. The U.S. Chamber will provide a keynote address presenting the report in Seattle on October 10th, 2012. Hosted by the AWB Institute, this event will feature a panel of education and industry leaders to address the opportunities found in the report and formulate next steps for change in our workforce training systems necessary to produce the workforce needed to support Washington state businesses.
U.S. Forum for Policy Innovation President and former U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings will be speaking at the Summit on Higher Education at the Economic Club of Indiana Meeting in Indianapolis.
College affordability has been a flashpoint issue for some time now, and a recent article in the Wall Street Journal illustrates why.
This report identifies the best and worst performing states—the leaders and laggards— in public postsecondary education. It focuses on the performance of the institutions over which state governments have the most influence: public colleges and universities. In an effort to systematically measure the most important factors being watched by policymakers, business leaders, and concerned citizens, we graded state performance and policy.
Stagnate unemployment numbers continue to concern many community leaders and policy makers, but the reality is many workers are ill-suited for available jobs.
The nation’s colleges and universities must do a better job of closing the growing divide between the education and skills of the American workforce and the needs of employers, according to a new U.S.
Leaders and Laggards Evaluates Postsecondary Performance Across 50 States, Calls on Business Community to Take Action
Today we come to our fifth and final blog post leading up to the release of Leaders & Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Public Postsecondar
