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Michigan Expands Tuition-Free Community Scholarship Program to Adults Ages 21-24 Without Degrees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This expansion will help us reach our Sixty by 30 goal—to have 60% of adults earn a postsecondary education or training by 2030—and build on our economic momentum. With low unemployment, growing advanced manufacturing industries, and strong small business growth, we need to expand Reconnect to bolster our pipeline for talented workers.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pathways for Careers in Manufacturing and Engineering, a joint effort from Cal State Fullerton’s Extension and International Programs and the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received $211,000 to spark community college students’, high schoolers’, and eventually, middle schoolers’ interest in the field of biomanufacturing.

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Facts about Manufacturing: The Top 18 Facts You Need to Know

CAPD

Published by National Association of Manufacturing “ 8. By 2030, 4 million manufacturing jobs will likely be needed. Over the next decade, 4 million manufacturing jobs will likely be needed, and 2.1 million are expected to go unfilled if we do not inspire more people to pursue modern manufacturing careers.

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These 10 schools found their footing creating quality alternative credentials

University Business

Among the first objectives in Kansas State’s 2023 strategic plan is to enroll 5,000 to 7,000 alternative credential-seeking learners by 2030 across continuing education courses, micro-credentials and industry training collaboratives. It took 10 months for the university to implement the system.

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Material World: The Importance of Selecting Healthy Materials for K-12 Projects

Clark Nesxen

As a firm, choosing to design with healthy materials has become one of our primary goals as we have aligned ourselves with healthy building initiatives such as the AIA 2030 Challenge. The AIA 2030 Challenge targets having all new buildings and renovations be carbon-neutral by 2030.

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Artificial intelligence? What happened to virtual reality?

University Business

trillion to the global economy by 2030, and create millions of jobs across various sectors, such as health care, education, retail and manufacturing. Virtual reality is changing the workplace According to a report by consulting firm PwC , virtual reality and its cousins could add $1.5

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Higher ed must get ahead of AI paradigm shift (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Last August, I sat in a conference room in Delhi, India, listening to a partner at a global consulting firm tell us that by 2030, one-third of the world’s workforce will be Indian or of Indian descent and that India would not replicate China’s strategy of taking on the industries of the West—manufacturing, chemicals and steel—but (..)