The U.S. postsecondary education and workforce training systems play a critically important role in advancing economic mobility, and guided pathways are an especially promising approach to increasing credential attainment. But Black learners, along with their Latinx and Indigenous peers, experience greater barriers to access and success in higher education. Moreover, they are underrepresented in the programs of study that lead to high-wage jobs. To create equitable opportunity for economic opportunity and advancement, higher education institutions must reimagine the ways in which they encourage and support these learners to select and complete programs of study that are associated with high wage jobs and careers in industries that are projected to grow. In this session, JFF Vice President, Michael Collins, will draw on lessons from JFF’s Racial Economic Equity Initiative that suggest an urgent need to augment guided pathways with a holistic approach that integrates solutions to the specific challenges that Black learners face in our education and workforce training systems and in our nation’s labor market.
Zoom webinar link:
https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/j/83648131026?pwd=VGQyTmVYUkhCK3EybTRvcVU2eTUzZz09
Webinar ID: 836 4813 1026 Passcode: GP Phone: 1 929 205 6099