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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 last year, “South by” was canceled a few days before we were all set to leave for Austin, so we h...
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 of tasks,” said Michelle Hartmann, director of Community and Workforce Programs. “They can assist...
Investing in it. we've 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 don't think one little executive order at a nice, you know, white house event is going to do that. but show me the numbers. if they're 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 government. not a lot on retraining workers. if they do it, great, but i'm skeptical. >> i'd love to ...
All the other governors back in february. i asked him to make this a priority. that's exactly what they're doing this week. and we're 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. it's what type of programs there are i will give you an example of the problem. might be in education. we got an emai...