Dec 14, 2020
YSU BRINGS ON WORKFORCE DIRECTOR: Jennifer Oddo, who has led workforce development efforts at IBM for the past five years, is the new executive director of Strategic Workforce Education and Innovation at Youngstown State University.
Oddo will lead the YSU Center for Workforce Education and Innovation, a newly formed entity that focuses on new approaches to close the skills and opportunity gaps for our communities.
The center will work to advance how higher education partners with industry and the community to build workforce strategies and programs leveraging YSU’s national Department of Labor registered apprenticeship program, pre-apprenticeship, industry training and credentials.