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Colleges are adding programs in a once-decimated industry — manufacturing

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To get from design to actual product involves using advanced computer software plus a waterjet, a traditional manufacturing machine. million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled by 2025. In February 2017, the Vermont Economic Development Authority approved $7.1 million by 2025 — is contributing to that gap.

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How a decline in community college students is a big problem for the economy

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Even if enrollment eventually rebounds, the interruption caused by the pandemic will be felt for years — coinciding with a hoped-for economic recovery — since that’s how long it usually takes students to complete credentials once they start them. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

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Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? “We Minnesota, for example, wants 70 percent of its residents to have certificates or degrees by 2025. Pushing older students back to college is essential to a national goal of increasing the proportion of the population with higher educations.

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After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople

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We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. And then, like many Californians, he reflects on his commute. “I

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

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The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

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“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. All three new tests are more rigorous than the old GED and were designed to mirror the changes in traditional high schools with the introduction of Common Core standards.