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MassBay Community College to Offer Free Tech Education and Training to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Participants will be able to get individual career service assistance, career counseling, resume-building and interview skill workshops, and wrap-around services such as childcare and transportation stipends. Collaborating with area workforce partners to fill the needs in MetroWest is a winning combination for the local economy.”

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Achieving the Dream Convening Highlights Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And honesty is evident in not only what we do when we’re doing career counseling and career services work but also in how we teach our collective stories as well as our histories.”

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Report Highlights Shortages of Credentials Aligned with Middle-Skills Occupations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Second, offering better career counseling. The report states that middle-skills providers, such as two-year institutions, must adjust their production of middle-skills credentials—certificates and associate’s degrees — to address the impending shortages.

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Talent Search Program Helps Students Succeed in Higher Education

Community College Review

Learn more about the Talent Search Program, which specifically targets potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds and offers them financial, academic and career counseling to help them finish high school and pursue a postsecondary education.

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Report: Community College Students Lack Information About Career Paths

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When it comes to knowing how much money they can make in their chosen career paths, almost a fifth of surveyed students (46%) responded “very little” or “not at all” to whether their college had helped them learn about their planned path’s average earnings.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Therefore, it is crucial that STEM education receives proper funding and provides the career counseling programs necessary to help students from every representable community to thrive. For this reason, STEM education suffers from an absence of student diversity spurred by financial burdens and obstacles.

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A Note to Your Principal About National School Counseling Week

Counselors' Corner

To meet that need, we’d like to focus on one facet of our service each day next week: Monday—What Is Counseling? We’ll have handouts and videos available on that subject in the office all day.