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Tag: U.S. Department of Labor
News Roundup
Education, Labor Departments Partner to Help Unemployed Get Postsecondary Education
The U.S. Department of Education is teaming up with the Department of Labor on an initiative to connect millions of unemployed Americans to postsecondary education, particularly for people whose employment has been displaced in the pandemic.
August 16, 2021
News Roundup
Labor Department Awards $183M in Apprenticeship Grants
Miami Dade College has been awarded a U.S. Department of Labor Scaling Apprenticeship Through Sector-Based Strategies grant worth nearly $2 million to expand and create new apprenticeship opportunities in Florida. The labor department this week announced $183.8 million in Scaling Apprenticeship Through Sector-Based Strategies grants to support the development and expansion of apprenticeships for educational […]
June 27, 2019
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Georgetown Study Maps Manufacturing Workforce Changes
Manufacturing in the United States has declined from its heyday decades ago, but it remains a major source of good jobs in most states for people without bachelor’s degrees, according to the latest study in a series by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
June 26, 2019
LGBTQ+
Experts: Federal Policy Change Would Harm Transgender Students
No one who has been paying attention over the last two years should be surprised to learn that Trump administration officials are completing a policy proposal that would more conservatively define gender under Title IX and have implications for transgender students on college campuses, says one academic who has added his voice to the early chorus of critics.
October 22, 2018
Opinion
Trump’s Art of the Deal: Merge Education and Labor Departments?
The White House publicly released a report called “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century” on Thursday, June 21. First among the 32 organizational reform priorities proposed by President Donald Trump is merging the departments of education and labor into a single entity: the Department of Education and the Workforce.
July 14, 2018
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Merging Education, Labor Departments Likely to Impact Higher Ed
The White House announced plans Thursday to combine the federal education and labor departments, creating a Department of Education and the Workforce. Some academics described potential positive and negative implications for higher education.
June 21, 2018
Community Colleges
Conference Identifies Innovative Practices for Community Colleges
Education practitioners gathered at the 2018 League for Innovation in the Community College Conference on Monday to discuss and promote innovation in teaching and learning across the community college landscape.
March 19, 2018
Women
Why Colleges Must Fight the Wage Gap
The saying goes, “You should never wake a sleeping baby.” Today, the average wage gap between women and men is almost 80 cents to the dollar. If the “baby” is gender inequality in the workforce, the U.S. has done an exceptional job of keeping the baby asleep.
March 15, 2018
Community Colleges
White House Adding $100M Program to Tuition-free Community College Push
The White House will roll out a $100 million program to strengthen tuition-free community college programs across the United States early this summer.
April 25, 2016
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Virginia State University Bounces Back With Wireless Grant
Despite Virginia State University’s fragile state, the university managed to secure a multimillion-dollar technology grant this fall.
December 15, 2014
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