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Noncredit Community College Workforce Education

May 2006–June 2009

This study focused on community college noncredit workforce instruction and contract training. CCRC examined:

  1. the extent to which noncredit workforce education and state policies play a role in workforce development, provide disadvantaged groups with access to higher education, and generate revenue for the college;
  2. the way that colleges organize their noncredit workforce education programs to balance the tradeoffs between the desired flexibility of noncredit education and the integration of noncredit education with credit programs; and
  3. the extent to which noncredit workforce education provides students with recorded outcomes, such as transcripts or industry certifications, and the extent to which data are available on the outcomes of noncredit workforce education.

The project was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and was carried out by CCRC in collaboration with the National Council on Workforce Education and the National Council on Continuing Education and Training.

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Publications

December 2009

Counting the Hidden Assets: First Steps in Assessing the Impact of Community College Noncredit Education Programs on the Workforce and Local Economies

June 2009

The Outlook for Noncredit Workforce Education

April 2009

The Landscape of Noncredit Workforce Education: State Policies and Community College Practices

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Project Lead

June 2007
June 14, 2007

James Jacobs

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