Apprenticeships: The Next Stackable Credential? This report explores how “stackable apprenticeships” can be used to structure short-term apprenticeships into a full career ladder. Extremely rare 20 years ago, now over a quarter of new Registered…
JFF contributes a chapter in the upcoming book, *13 Ideas that Are Transforming the Community College World*, edited by Terry O'Banion. In the chapter, titled “Eliminating the Gap Between High School and College: What the…
Making Higher Education Policy Work for Opportunity Youth While the economy has improved in recent years, millions of Americans don’t have the credentials they need to secure high-quality, family-supporting jobs. This is particularly true among…
Students in the Ethnographies of Work course at CUNY’s Guttman Community College become researchers, observing and analyzing workplace culture, expectations, racial norms, and other dynamics. In this report, student and employer participants share their perspectives…
Work-based Learning Toolkit: Resources from Jobs to Careers Access the Work-based Learning Toolkit, is a step-by-step guide to designing and implementing employee learning and career advancement projects for frontline workers. Created by Jobs for the…
More Tools for Fiscal Mapping These two tools focus on effectively engaging community stakeholders in a fiscal mapping process, including a tool to help communities align and coordinate collaborative initiatives already underway.
This guide addresses key misconceptions of on-the-job training (OJT) and provides specific implementation tactics used by local workforce areas. This guide addresses key misconceptions of on-the-job training (OJT) and provides specific implementation tactics used by…
Work-Based Courses Section 6: Connecting Workers to College The final section in the *Work-Based Courses* toolkit centers on how to provide the right supports that enable students to truly benefit from a work-based course. Connecting…
Work-Based Courses Section 5: Course Delivery The fifth section of the *Work-Based Courses* toolkit offers guidance on how to ensure the work-based curriculum is consistent and supports student learning. Collaboration between Faculty and Employer Mentors…