
Posted on 22. Oct, 2009
Marcy Drummond, Vice President for Workforce and Economic Development, has been appointed as a member of the Working Group for the Green Pathways to Postsecondary Success project facilitated by the Corps Network*. The project and working group, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and W. K. Kellogg Foundation, aims to deepen the understanding [...]
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009
In what will play a major role in California’s economic recovery, 2.7 million “middle-skill” job openings—those that require more than a high school diploma, but not a Bachelor’s Degree—are projected for the state by 2016, according to a new study* released by The Workforce Alliance (TWA), Skills2Compete and the California EDGE Campaign. But to unleash [...]
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009
LATTC Vice President for Workforce and Economic Development, Marcy Drummond, was selected to serve on The Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs, convened by the National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP). The taskforce examined the ability of the current worker training and education system in the United States to provide a workforce with the [...]