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NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Cybersecurity, Enterprise Risk Management, and Workforce Management Quick-Start Guide
, , , Greg Witte, Matthew Smith This Quick-Start Guide (QSG) draws on concepts and practices from enterprise risk management, cybersecurity risk management, and workforce management to help organizations improve communication about cybersecurity risks and to plan and implement workforce decisions based upon risk reality and planned risk responses.
Nine Years and Counting: NICE RAMPS Communities Keep Expanding Opportunities in Cybersecurity Work and Learning
A lot has changed in America’s cybersecurity workforce development ecosystem since 2016: employment in cybersecurity occupations has grown by more than 300,000[1]; the number of information security degrees awarded annually has more than tripled to nearly 35,000[2]; and a wide array of new technologies and risks have emerged.
Continuing Education in Europe: A Call for Institutional Transformation
At a time when the importance of continuous education is increasingly recognized, many higher ed institutions in Europe are still grappling with the integration of lifelong learning into their core frameworks. But there is a group of institutions looking to combat this issue and provide lifelong learning models across the continent.
Improving Communications to Develop Work-Based Learning Programs in the Skilled Trades
High-quality work-based learning opportunities for youth rely on successful, ongoing partnership across multiple stakeholders, including education institutions and the employers that host and hire students on work sites. These stakeholders often bring different expectations to their collaboration.
Reagan-era regulations hold back good jobs policies in states and cities
In the complicated and consequential world of federal regulations, the rules issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are among the most intricate and important.
Community college intermediaries can support youth apprenticeship and work-based learning
Community colleges haven’t traditionally had a large role in building trades apprenticeships, where unions and industry associations typically serve as a coordinator or intermediary. Even so, given their relationships with businesses and K-12 systems, and their built-in ability to offer for-credit coursework, community colleges have huge potential as apprenticeship intermediaries for youth-focused programs in the building trades.
The Job: IRAPs Are Dead-Now What?
Raytheon Technologies rolled out the country’s first ever industry-recognized apprenticeship program in October 2020—a move hailed by the administration at the time as a major milestone in expanding apprenticeships and creating more job opportunities for American workers. Two years later, the entire federal program is dead. The Biden administration paused it shortly after taking office, and the official end arrives next week.
Skilled trades worksites need culture change for youth work-based learning to deliver equity
Whenever you hear about apprenticeship and work-based learning models, you’re likely to hear about their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) benefits. But alongside promising case studies and a growing track record of success, it’s important to acknowledge that not all apprentices enjoy positive experiences.
Careful vetting is key to workforce program success
Like many community colleges, Houston’s Lone Star College system (LSC) manages to “be all things for all people” through equal emphasis on transfer and career-training coursework. In its non-degree workforce offerings, a review process that’s more familiar in academic programs helps ensure students get their money’s worth.
Mott's Workforce Programs Get a Boost from Embedded Credentials
Bottled water is everywhere in Flint, MI. It was available for free in our hotel lobby and for a dollar at the restaurant next door. Mott Community College also had a supply ready for our visit as part of the New Models for Career Preparation project. The tap water is safe to drink now, but many Flint residents still prefer to avoid it.
Youth Apprenticeship and WBL in the Skilled Trades
Findings from Discussions with Employers, Educators, and Intermediaries Brief April 14, 2022 Apprenticeship has a long history in skilled trades occupations such as construction, manufacturing, and automotive repair. Today, these occupations account for the large majority of registered apprenticeship programs approved by the U.S. Department of Labor or state apprenticeship agencies. In the growing field of youth apprenticeship, however, the skilled trades are not as well represented.
Green Jobs for a Green Future
In June 2016, a so-called struck Ellicott City, Md., inundating the historic Main Street with overflow from the nearby Tiber Branch stream, killing two residents, and ruining businesses in its wake. Then, in May 2018, it happened again. A second catastrophic flood swept through downtown, destroying recently reconstructed buildings and claiming another life.
$3B Department of Commerce initiative has big workforce implications
Announced in July, the Investing in America's Communities funding opportunities emphasize worker equity and job quality in regional economic development projects Blog Post DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock.com Aug. 26, 2021 When it comes to funding workforce development projects, the Department of Commerce probably isn’t the first federal agency most state and local leaders look to.
Building Back Better: A National Jobs Strategy
The United States has a jobs problem. When the COVID-19 pandemic plunged the economy back into recession in early 2020, it laid bare a fragile and profoundly inequitable labor market. The economic expansion that reigned from 2009 through 2019 brought historically low unemployment and inflation but failed to reduce income inequality or arrest the decline in the number of high-quality, well-paying jobs.
Biden and Harris can help speed recovery by integrating workforce training with a commitment to quality jobs
Last summer, we wrote about Senator Kamala Harris’s 21st Century SKILLS Act, a proposal to support the American public workforce system with more flexible job training investments. The bill set out increased funding and broader eligibility for individual training accounts (ITAs)—public subsidies that support job seekers pursuing relatively short, industry-aligned training programs.
Strengthening the Health Care Workforce
As the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the health care landscape in the US and across the world, it's also exposing the numerous barriers and inequities that stand in the way of meeting America's emergency and long-term health care workforce needs. Health care professions in the United States are both hard to get into and hard to advance through.
Sen. Kamala Harris's 21st Century SKILLS Act is a step in the right direction for job training
With mandatory funding, built-in quality guardrails, and a focus on supportive services, Sen. Kamala Harris’s new bill could help more Americans meet today’s skills challenges during a downturn. Blog Post Maverick Pictures / Shutterstock.com July 15, 2019 Last month, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) introduced the 21st Century SKILLS Act.
Two Year Later, UK's Apprenticeship Levy Still Provides Valuable Model For Workforce Innovation
Trainer and apprentice Getty Conversations about applying international work-based learning models to the American context can only go so far before veering into wishful thinking. American business leaders are enchanted by German-style apprenticeships, for example. The employee-led works councils that help make them possible? Not so much.
Funding the New School Year, All Year Long
The Department of Education first proposed year-round Pell grants in 2008, in its project of “strengthening our Nation by providing advanced training for today’s global economy.” But by 2011, after a trial run of only two full years, they were on the way out. In 2016, the challenges of the global economy haven’t changed, and year-round Pell Grants are back on the agenda.
Come What May: Embedding Tech Skills for the Future of Work
With tuition fees as high as ever and formerly ironclad professions changing drastically or going extinct, colleges and universities are thinking risk-management. Perched on one of the most productive oil and gas reservoirs in the country, Williston State College in North Dakota is in a lucrative but precarious spot.
Better Together: Embedding Certifications to Support Adult Learners
Forty percent of American college students are now age 25 or older. While this may be the “new normal” of higher education, meeting the needs of adult students has been a struggle for colleges built around green lawns and four-year cohorts that more or less stick together. Some adaptations for adult learners are obvious. Evening, weekend, and online classes make it easier to manage other big responsibilities like kids and jobs.
The Biggest Losers in FY 2018 Higher Ed Budget Request
The Trump administration today released its full fiscal year 2018 budget request to Congress -- and it has particularly harsh implications for low-income college students and families. While the budget request is typically largely ignored by lawmakers and no doubt destined to collect dust on a shelf somewhere, it nonetheless can serve as a list of offerings to Congress for future budget cuts; and it details publicly the Trump administration’s priorities.
Apprenticeship Forward: Building a New American Tradition
When does a hot policy idea turn into a genuine lever for innovation? A lot of people are asking that question these days about apprenticeship. Is it just the latest “flavor of the month” among policy wonks, or are we on the cusp of a significant change in how Americans gain access to education and jobs? Over the last five years, our national apprenticeship system has drawn steady and growing attention from policymakers across the country and at all levels of government.
Grads of LifeVoice: What We Can Learn From The UK's Approach To Apprenticeship
If you ask a German or Swiss businessperson what the ROI is on their apprenticeship program, be prepared for a look of bemusement or even befuddlement. But don’t expect a string of numbers.
How Do We Pay for It? Innovative Approaches to Financing Apprenticeship
If you ask a German or Swiss businessperson what the ROI is on their apprenticeship program, be prepared for a look of bemusement or even befuddlement. But don’t expect a string of numbers.
Two New America polls on higher ed priorities show political divides
Though more research will help to elaborate on these issues, our findings suggest that Republican voters could favor merit-based as opposed to need-based financial aid -- tying grants to GPA, for instance. That would be likely to meet resistance from higher ed's institutional lobbies (whose clients would lose out from a smaller supply of grant aid), and would be cause for concern among poorer students.
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