Information
- Link information across service delivery systems
- Provide nuanced analyses that highlight student voices
- Design approachable data visualizations with actionable data
Insights
- Connect information to current practices
- Strengthen capacity to understand and utilize data
- Facilitate honest and open conversations that are centered on student success
Tools
- Translate insights into actionable plans that are aligned with current priorities
- Support partnerships across service delivery systems and with communities
- Assist with change management in the context of local cultures
Helping adult educators strengthen pathways to college and living-wage jobs
- Leverage data, research, and technical assistance to increase transition of adult learners from adult education into postsecondary education and college
- Lead regional planning for training systems that provide the career, literacy, and English language skills that lead to economic mobility
- Support national, state, and regional systems serving adult learners to center economic mobility and equity in adult education
Dashboard showing regionalized labor market data in relation to regional educational offerings
Opportunity Maps clarify the skills and jobs for common majors
Strengthening competitive and equitable economies by improving access to workforce education
- Create asset inventories among employers, educators, workforce, and community-based service organizations
- Design contextualized learning resources to address equity gaps and build a competitive labor force
- Develop regional sector strategies for career development, work-based learning, internships, apprenticeships, and integrated education and training
Enabling colleges to identify skills and occupational relevancy for all academic pathways
- Analyze enrollment patterns, majors, and job outcomes to address equity gaps in higher education
- Lead facilitated conversations on equity, jobs, and strengthening student core competencies across the curriculum
- Provide tools that demonstrate how common majors relate to skills, living wage jobs, and their impact on regional contexts
Documenting employment rates, earnings, and the most common jobs for people who earned bachelor’s degrees in a specific field
Dashboard showing program-level progress and outcomes
Building effective intersegmental partnerships
- Examine how career educational offerings in K–12 districts align with college programs and employment options
- Facilitate planning processes that help educators and employers work together to design regional solutions
- Design and build linked state data systems with a user-centered and collaborative approach that safeguards sensitive information
