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“Our nation’s children need opportunities to continue their education through the formal education system and into the workplace. Our 21st century children find the need to earn a living wage while they complete one credential after another in a quest to better themselves and their family’s future. A Learn and Earn strategy needs to be embraced by all states and then, promoted through funding provided by federal agencies, private philanthropy and the corporate philanthropic community as well. Our children and country deserve nothing less.”

~Jan Morrison, 2011

Grants:
AACC Announce STEM Mentoring Grants: MentorLinks is designed for community colleges seeking to improve technician education programs in the science, technology, engineering, or mathematics fields.
Department of Labor H-1B Grants: On May 2, the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announced the availability of $240 million in competitive H-1B Technical Skills Training grants.
NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Grants: With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.

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News:
Arizona: Feds fund "STEM” initiative for rural engineers: The National Science Foundation has given Arizona a $900,000 grant to prepare high school students for careers in engineering in southeastern Arizona. The three-year grant to Science Foundation Arizona will continue to support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education at Cochise College.
BAE Helps Bridge Future Skills Gap as Graduates Shun Science: BAE has as many as 1,000 employees on its apprenticeship plan in the U.K.
Confronting the coming American worker shortage: So dire are the predictions about the unprepared American worker that a group of executives from major companies appealed directly to state governors earlier this month, urging them to set higher standards for student proficiency in science and mathematics.
Cybersecurity profile blossoms at University of Maryland, Baltimore Couty, tech park: The research and technology park at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has achieved a "critical mass" of cybersecurity companies, growing from one to 17 companies all of which provide jobs for the students.
Georgia: There’s more than one path to an engineering degree: The agreement allows technical college students to complete their first two years of a Bachelor of Science in engineering degree at one of 19 state technical colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools before transferring to Southern Polytechnic in Marietta.
Ivy Tech Community College Receives $4.7 Million Grant from DOE: Ivy Tech Community College (News - Alert) of Indiana has received a $4.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for smart grid workforce training programs that will help prepare the next generation of workers in the utility and electrical manufacturing industries.
Jan Morrison on Systems Thinking on Learn and Earn: The work of TIES includes a coordinated reach into the K12 sector to help build the structures and points of connection with the college system and with industry to provide students with a navigable ecosystem, rather than separate siloes.
May 12: Tennessee wants colleges to produce more grads in hottest job areas: The report tracked the fastest-growing degree programs in the state. Healthcare, business education and liberal arts programs led the list. By 2018, researchers expect the state to double its science, technology, engineering and math degree-holders.
Purple States: Learn to Earn: In video portraits that accompany New York Times Business coverage, four recent graduates explore the value of a vocational credential. Technical high school and college programs offered them a second chance. Are they equipped to succeed in 21st Century manufacturing?
University of Maryland Eastern Shore and IBM help grads land jobs: IBM engineers, together with UMES faculty and administrators collaborate to modify existing courses and added new ones to make UMES graduates competitive for IT and computer marketing jobs.
USA Today: Tech jobs boom like it's 1999: Tech workers are coveted commodities as the high-tech industry undergoes its biggest hiring binge in more than a decade
Vocational Schools Face Deep Cuts in Federal Funding: Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does not even finish high school in the usual four years
Wake Tech and IBM Join Forces to Promote STEM Careers: Dr. Stephen Scott, president of Wake Technical Community College, has announced that the college has forged a new partnership with IBM to promote careers in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. IBM has donated $10,000 to the Wake Tech Foundation, to be used to present a STEM summit for community college faculty from across the state.

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Publications:
An Analysis of U.S. Learn and Earn Programs by Louis Gardner: Learn-and-earn programs can play an important role in preparing students for successful careers. The academic curriculum and relevant work experience reflect the “learn” component; student financial assistance, the “earn” component.
ATE Student Success: Building a Diverse and Entrepreneurial Workforce: ATE Principle Investigatorsidentified community colleges’ key challenges to developing workplace and entrepreneurial skills
Center for American Progress: Delivering Innovation Economy Skills While Wisely Using Public Funds: Educating Today’s Working Learners to Meet Tomorrow’s Demands by Louis Soares March 2011
Center on Education and the Workforce: What's it Worth: The Economic Value of College Majors: The report finds that different undergraduate majors result in very different earnings
Corporate Voices: From an 'Ill-Prepared to a Well-Prepared Workforce: Employers have taken on the challenge of workforce readiness training as workers enter their employment without the necessary skills and competencies to be fully productive.
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce: STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) occupations are critical to our continued economic competitiveness because of their direct ties to innovation, economic growth, and productivity, even though they will only be 5 percent of all jobs in the U.S. economy by 2018.
Jobs for the Future: EMPLOYER-PAID TUITION ADVANCEMENT FOR LOW-INCOME WORKERS: Children’s Hospital Boston introduced a new “tuition advancement” policy: the hospital prepays college tuition for low-income, entry-level workers who are seeking degrees within a defined set of high-growth, high-demand jobs
NGA Degrees for What Jobs? Raising Expectations for Universities and Colleges in a Global Economy: States.are.taking. steps.to.strengthen. their.universities. and.colleges.as. agents.of.workforce. preparation.and. sources.of.more. opportunity,.growth,. and.competitive. advantage
NGA: Using Community Colleges to Build a STEM-Skilled Workforce.: Community colleges are uniquely positioned to grow the pipeline of STEM professionals and produce more STEM-skilled workers.
U.S. Department of Commerce: STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future: STEM workers drive our nation’s innovation and competitiveness by generating new ideas, new companies and new industries. However, U.S. businesses frequently voice concerns over the supply and availability of STEM workers

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Resources:
Business Higher Education Forum: Learn and Earn Model: The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) has released a new system dynamics model designed to explore the effect of employer and postsecondary education partnerships, also known as "Learn and Earn" programs, on workforce outcomes, along with a case study describing the project.
Community College Research Center: The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is the leading independent authority on the nation’s nearly 1,200 two-year colleges.
CORD: Advancing Career Pathways: The Adult Career Pathways (ACP) model is an extension of Career Pathways that focuses on adult learners whose educational backgrounds are varied, whose need for support services is considerable, and whose lack of academic preparation for college-level work is often extensive.
Corporate Voices: Learn and Earn Micro-Business Cases: Corporate Voices recently published a set of new Learn and Earn micro-business cases with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under its Postsecondary Completion Initiative.
Learn and Earn Deck: Postsecondary Success: Parminder Jassal: The Bill & Melinda Gates Postsecondary strategy aims to “double the rate” of low-income young adults who, by age 26, earn a postsecondary credential with labor market value
Made in Florida: Engineering Technology Educations: The Engineering Technology (ET) degree program was developed by the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FLATE) Center with Community Colleges and industries across the state and in close partnership with the Florida Department of Education Division of Adult and Career Education to address a growing need to supply manufacturers and high technology industries with qualified, highly skilled workers in the foreseeable future.
National Council for Workforce Development: The National Council for Workforce Education is committed to promoting excellence and growth in workforce education. As an affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), NCWE provides a national forum for administrators and faculty in workforce education and basic skills, as well as representatives of business, labor, military, and government, to affect and direct the future role of two-year and other post-secondary institutions in workforce education and economic development.
National Skills Coalition: National Skills Coalition is a broad-based coalition working toward a vision of an America that grows its economy by investing in its people so that every worker and every industry has the skills to compete and prosper.

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STEMtech 2011: League for Innovation in the Community College

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