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January 24, 2020
Jamie Merisotis
Veterans Need Clear Career Pathways
Ellie Ashford, Community College Daily
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Community colleges already play a major role helping military members transition to private-sector careers, but more can be done to better align the skills people learn in the military with employers’ requirements.

That's one of the conclusions to come out of the opening session of the American Association of Community Colleges’ Workforce Development Institute. Experts emphasized a need for today’s learning to be “learner-centered"—and one that calls for evaluating and rewarding what learners know and can do, regardless of where they were trained. 

Jamie Merisotis
Robots Are Coming, But Hybrid Skills Will Keep Humans in Control
Rob Kadel, The EvoLLLution
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Workers are regularly reminded today that their current ways of working are at risk as more job tasks become automated and more choices and ideas are left to algorithms.

The good news is that a better insurance policy can be found in education, particularly in programs that help students master a hybrid of human skills and technical knowledge. 

Jamie Merisotis
Swiss Apprenticeships in Utah
Madeline St. Amour, Inside Higher Ed
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A Swiss company is bringing its apprenticeship model to Utah to build a skilled workforce for its new facility in this country. The Swiss model has students split time between classes and paid, on-the-job training to get skills for a specific industry.

Stadler Rail, a Swiss manufacturing company that has contracts to build trains in California and Texas, decided to replicate the apprenticeship system after finding a dearth of employees with the correct skills for its U.S. facility in Salt Lake City.

Jamie Merisotis
Free College, Student-Debt Forgiveness, and Pell Grant Expansion Dominate Higher-Ed Policy for Top Democratic Candidates
Jonathan Custodio, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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As the field of Democratic presidential candidates narrows, each prospective nominee’s policy proposals are being scrutinized by pundits and voters alike.

The Chronicle breaks down the legislative agendas of the six candidates who participated in the final primary debate—Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren—and where they stand on the most popular higher-ed policy issues.

Constructing a Skilled Worker Pipeline
Ramona Schindelheim, WorkingNation
Opinion: State Program Would Help 'Working Poor' Students
Kimberly P. Blosser and John A. Downey, Fauquier Now (Virginia)
A New Player in the College Completion Market
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed
The 21st-Century Learning Reformation
Mark Leuba, eCampus News
Black and Latinx Students Are Getting Less Bang for Their Bachelor’s Degrees
Ariana De La Fuente and Marissa Navarro, Center for American Progress
Opinion: The Time Is Now to Invest in Black Higher Education
Dwayne Smith, St. Louis Business Journal
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