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/PRNewswire/ -- CodePath, the nonprofit working to transform computer science education for underrepresented students, has today announced expanded computer...

I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week. Four ideas for improving higher ed, and how they’ve evolved in the last year. In March 2020, The Chronicle held its sixth annual "Shark Tank:Edu Edition" a fun SXSW EDU tradition in which we invite entrepreneurs and others to pitch their ideas for improving higher ed to a panel of judges, with a live audience getting in on the grilling. Except l...

Image: Canstock photo February 1, 2021 ERIE, Pa. — Health care workers are in higher demand than ever, and Penn State Behrend’s Office of Community and Workforce Programs is helping to fill that need with a new Clinical Medical Assistant (CMA) program that will prepare students to sit for national certification examinations in just four months. “CMAs work in physicians’ offices, clinics, chiropractic offices, hospitals and outpatient facilities, where they perform a variety o...

Investing in it. weve invested a lot in tax cuts for corporate america to make taxes higher. are we willing to invest in training workers to get jobs that will pay them more in the future. i dont think one little executive order at a nice, you know, white house event is going to do that. but show me the numbers. if theyre investing big time in retraining workers, great, happy to see it, terrific. but we spend a lot of money on tax cuts. we spend a lot of money on other things in the federal gove...

All the other governors back in february. i asked him to make this a priority. thats exactly what theyre doing this week. and were thrilled that one of those key stops is here in wisconsin. brian: a lot of those working class jobs are those people that wanted to put him in to office and helped him win in wisconsin. you said the problem according to one senior administration official. the problem is not money. there are 31 workforce programs spread across 13 different states. its what type of pro...

>> reporter: the presidents budget contains about 40% cuts in all workforce programs from the last budget. if workforce development is a priority, i understand the president had said that $90 million for mentorship programs. >> let me circle back to the point i made about private partnerships and what the building trades do. the building trades invest $1 billion a year of private money to develop skilled workforce. i want to challenge the assumption that the only way to move policy is to increas...