The magazine that turned college rankings into a big business is taking a long, close look at career and technical education.
Brian Kelly, editor and chief content officer of U.S. News and World Report, sees the business opportunity in ranking technician education programs and the news value in covering the national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills job crisis.
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Community college leaders’ drive for funding from external sources and the learning curve involved in obtaining and managing grants often result in community colleges having more than one competitive federal grant.
The overlap was more than 80 percent in 2013 when staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cross-checked the lists of community colleges with manufacturing or energy-related grants from NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training(TAACCCT) program and DOE.
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