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Challenges for Higher Education: An Emerging Skills Shortage and Inequity in the Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Boggs By 2031, 72%of the jobs in the U.S. The California community colleges focus on equitable access by calling for all ninth-graders to take at least a one-credit college course in which they explore potential careers and develop a preliminary college education plan that includes a minimum of 12 college credits during high school.

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Report Finds Increased Interest in Higher Ed for Career Advancement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The State of Higher Education 2024 Report documents how current, prospective, and stopped-out students view post-high school education pathways, their access to them, their value, and experiences. The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce projects that by 2031, 72% of jobs will require some kind of education beyond high school.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million STEM job openings by 2031 – supporting and assisting this population with the obstacles in their paths may prove essential to the economic health of the country, the report stated. Latino population is not negligible. And as the U.S. anticipates a coming shortage of workers in engineering and tech – there are projected to be 10.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.”

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I’m your future Gen Z adult learner. Here are three ways to hook me with your program webpage.

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EAB estimates that by 2031, 60% of adult learners will be Gen Z (like my classmates and me). Tip 2: Make the information we’re looking for easily accessible on program webpages Right now, almost 75% of prospective adult learners turn to graduate program webpages for information, and Gen Z is the most connected generation yet.