Posts tagged ‘workforce development’
Workforce Development
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013Professional Development Opportunity: March 22, 2013 New England Workforce Network Conference ‘We are all in this together” Middlesex Community College, Bedford MA Flyer: NE Workforce Conference Please contact Alyce directly StilesA@gcc.mass.edu, (413)-775-1607 for funding for this conference.
CC Online courses: widens achievement gap
Thursday, February 28th, 2013More recent reports suggest that online courses may widen the achievement gap. Online students are less likely to achieve a degree. Black students, male students, younger students, and students with lower grade-point averages are most susceptible to attrition in online courses. Skill sets of students enrolling in online courses. Columbia University’s Community College Research Center researchers examined 500,000 courses…
Value of the liberal arts
Sunday, October 7th, 2012Recently as the emphasis to workforce development and ‘job’ skills training has escalated, more research and emphasis on the value of liberal arts is emerging as an important ‘work’ skill. Habits of mind explores why students need to have these underlying traits: “curiosity, open-mindedness, and intellectual courage, thoroughness, and humility.” Another previous article explored that the Liberal Arts…
