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Lima, Minneapolis
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Freelance journalist. Words in @TheImprintNews, @SmithsonianMag, @guardian, etc. Hablo español. Now in 🇵🇪 Past: @chicagotribune, @LatAmDispatch, @GloJo_NYU

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Got an Idea for a Noncredit Program? Central New Mexico Community College is All Ears

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By Colleen Connolly
| workshift.org
Adam Lazar is three semesters away from earning a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, but for the last two years, he’s already been working in the field and earning the highest wage he’s ever made. When he graduates, the 28-year-old will have a full-time job waiting for him at the same company. While many of his classmates struggle to find paid internships, Lazar has held a mechanical engineering internship at Redwire Space since 2024.
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Indiana Is Building a World-Class Youth Apprenticeship System. Will Employers Show Up?

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By Colleen Connolly
| workshift.org
For the past year, Indiana has been working on an ambitious new apprenticeship system for high schoolers, modeled on the Swiss one. Almost all of the pieces to make it successful are in place: support from the governor, a revamped high school diploma that emphasizes work-based learning, more than $25M in funding from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, and multiple trips to Switzerland to show business leaders and educators how it can be done.
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Calling Counselors

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By Colleen Connolly, Paul Fain
| workshift.org
Colleges are experimenting with apprenticeships and stackable credentials to make the route to a counseling career more manageable. Also, an AI roundup featuring takes on regulation from the pope and the president, data on rural divide with AI usage, and an essay about what we’re getting wrong about upskilling workers for AI.
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