Posts Tagged ‘labor’
College Labor Shortages in 2018?
by Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum
November 8, 2010
The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce has engaged in a highly publicized campaign claiming that the nation will face a very substantial deficit of college graduates by 2018 if the American postsecondary system fails to rapidly expand the number of college degrees it awards each year. Indeed, the employment ...
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Higher Education Needs a Dialogue with the 99%
by Wayne M. Langley
June 4, 2012
Higher education is at a crossroads, not only in the U.S. but also globally. This challenge is prompting an immigrant union, on the centennial anniversary of the “Bread and Roses” strike at Lawrence Mills, to once again take up the labor movement’s historic role of speaking for the common good and the broad interests ...
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