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Getting to Work : Audio : Community and Vocational Colleges Explore New Paradigms for Workforce Development

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Getting to Work : Audio : Community and Vocational Colleges Explore New Paradigms for Workforce Development

DATE: September 8, 2010

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ABSTRACT: Community, technical, and vocational colleges play an important role in preparing the workforce for the immediate labor demands of local employers and promoting full employment in their service regions. However, current economic conditions have challenged traditional models, prompting revised and sometimes new approaches. Dr. Rolando Montoya, provost at Miami Dade College, the nation's largest nonprofit institution of higher learning, discusses how a community college can nimbly adjust its curriculum to respond to the fast-changing workforce needs of local businesses and strengthen local economic development.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. "Getting to Work : Audio : Community and Vocational Colleges Explore New Paradigms for Workforce Development," Economic Development (September 8, 2010). https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/7183/item/655926/content/mp3/frbatl_econDev_20100908-community-vocational-colleges-explore-new-paradigms-for-workforce-development, accessed on June 15, 2025.

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