Economic growth and coming retirements have generated increasing interest and investment in Wisconsin’s skill infrastructure. This conference will provide workforce development policy leaders and innovators a chance to consider progress on skills in the state and generate ideas for directions for the future. Two papers will be released at the event. A panel will respond to and discuss key policy opportunities identified in the papers.
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Wisconsin’s Career Pathways: Transformations, Results, and the Future (pdf)
The state’s technical college system has embraced career pathways, generating new approaches to training, new ways for workers to connect with training, new ways for employers to connect with skills. This panel will allow system and campus leaders to discuss how the work is going and how it is changing relationships with employers, students, and the community.
Wisconsin Fast Forward: Reflections from the Field for Strengthening and Extending the Investment (pdf)
Wisconsin’s Fast Forward program provides grants to business to invest in skills of their workforce. The report reflects on the program and suggests some directions for strengthening connections to employers, workers, and the workforce development system.
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Sponsored by COWS. Thanks to Madison College for hosting this event. Contact Laura Dresser with questions (ldresser@cows.org).
Thanks to the Working Poor Family Project for data and support of research on key policy issues for low-income working families in the state of Wisconsin.
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