What Role Should Employers Play in Postsecondary Education?

This career exploration and readiness program’s formula for learner success combines social capital, self-discovery to launch career pathways for first-gen grads

Just half of college alumni feel it was worth it to take out loans to attend college, with even lower levels of satisfaction from Black and Latino alumni about their loans.

Invest now in community colleges to fuel economic opportunity

Talent Path’s Learn-and-Earn Model Bridges Skills Gap Between College and Career

Can the pandemic induce higher education to jump-start the future of learning?

Amid a pandemic crisis characterized by stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions, the leader of the career center at Stony Brook University describes its fallout with an unexpected word: freedom.

In her early 20s, Kiabeth Santos was well on her way to achieving her goal of becoming a nurse. She wanted to work in health care, and she loves working with people. But then life — as it often does — got in the way.

XULA President Reynold Verret on How His HBCU Helps Students Succeed

Preparing the Education-Workforce System for the 100-Year Career

In the earliest days of the pandemic, researchers at Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights realized leaders across our nation would need a real-time understanding of how people were experiencing, thinking about, and feeling about work and education. The research team launched a regular survey, Public Viewpoint, to make these insights widely available — ultimately including more than 25,000 survey participants over the course of 2020.

‘Lessons Earned’ Podcast Talks With JFF’s Michael Collins

The story of one learner’s journey through education and employment is told across several data sets. Enrollment and graduation outcomes tell one part of the story, with labor market information and employer data filling in the blanks. Brighthive, led by CEO and founder Matt Gee, is connecting siloed data systems so learners, employers, and educators alike can make better informed decisions about preparing tomorrow’s workforce.

Application requirements favoring families who can apply and commit early without comparing financial aid packages. A preference for legacy students and star athletes. A tendency to recruit from the same high schools year after year.

It’s college application season, and anxious students and parents throughout the country are strategizing on how to get into the elite colleges of their choice. Journalist and author Jeff Selingo just spent a year inside college admissions offices at three higher education institutions to write his latest book, “Who Gets In and Why.”

Long Life Learning offers readers a glimpse into a future where the average working life has no beginning, middle, or end. Contemplating a shift from the educational all-you-can-eat-buffet of college and university to an “as-you-need-it” approach to delivering education, author Michelle Weise explains why and how worker education is overdue for momentous changes.

Strada’s “Lessons Earned” podcast, featuring conversations with innovative thinkers and doers seeking to improve the education-workforce system, returns soon as host Ben Wildavsky welcomes a new co-host for Season 3, Braven founder and CEO Aimée Eubanks Davis.

Techtonic Academy’s apprenticeship program is building a more diverse talent pipeline for the tech industry

Facing unprecedented demand for groceries and other goods delivered to the doors of those isolated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon has on-boarded 175,000 employees nationwide in the past few months and continues to hire.

Faced with job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans are turning to outplacement services provided by their former employers for help in their next job search. But with the economy faltering and whole categories of jobs going away, job seekers are struggling, and the resume writing, interview prep, and networking assistance that may have provided a boost in the past just aren’t enough now.

Lessons Earned podcast features Scott Pulsipher talking about competency-based education

Why understanding local labor markets will be critical to our economic recovery

Latest Lessons Earned podcast features conversation with founder

Excelencia offers insights on helping Latino learners during the pandemic and beyond

CCRI President Meghan Hughes embraces opportunity to adapt, learn new skills

Pluralsight uses machine learning to put learners on direct path to acquiring skills employers need

Webinar features Strada researchers, expert guests discussing pandemic’s disproportionate impact on people of color

Strada podcast explores economic, educational impacts of COVID-19

Follow these tips from Strada affiliates to help learners through the pandemic

University of Cincinnati program creates a successful path from education to careers

In challenging times, the need to forge pathways to opportunity is greater than ever. We’ve created the Strada Resource Center to inform and empower educators, employers, policymakers, and others seeking to respond to COVID-19.