Heads up, young people. According to Modern Campus, it’s ever more important for community colleges and businesses to partner in developing tomorrow’s workforce.
Main point: Community colleges can “act as a pipeline for students to earn both credit and non-credit credentials,” and “government policy changes can drive investment from the surrounding community.”
More about it:
- “Community education should serve a population that may be hard to reach…a population that has little interest in going through the motions of onboarding as a new student through a traditional community college setting.”
- “Continuing education also serves as an entry point for business engagement.”
- “…traditional schools simply can’t keep up with the changing demands of the job market.”
Why it matters:
- Among other things, “Continuing education is really an entry point for both the employer and non-participating community members, or members that had to pivot due to the pandemic…People that were forced out of their career and had to get retrained.”
- “The institution needs to be able to incentivize business partners though.”