Tag: green jobs

A recent CCRC webinar explored how community colleges can meet the growing workforce demands of evolving advanced infrastructure, energy, and agriculture industries. A recording of the webinar is available in this blog post.

More community colleges are incorporating themes of sustainability into their general education courses. Learn how an environmental biology course at Mesa Community College in Arizona is incorporating themes of climate action to encourage students to engage with complex, real-world issues in this blog post.

Across the country, two-year colleges are rolling out innovative programs to mitigate climate-related challenges. Community Colleges and Climate Futures, a webinar series sponsored by CCRC and the Foundation for California Community Colleges, aims to help community colleges strengthen their efforts through storytelling and connection. 

To help community colleges retool their workforce programs to adapt to changes in the energy sector, it’s important to understand what colleges are already doing. CCRC researchers spoke with Allison Moe, a research project manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, about connecting with community and technical colleges and the potential impacts of a new CCRC study.

As part of an applied research agenda to build knowledge and tools to support community colleges in preparing students for high-value jobs in the green economy, CCRC is partnering with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to conduct a one-year landscape study of green training programs at U.S. community colleges.