Past Lessons for Future Practice: Community Colleges and the Economic Recovery
Channel: New America
Date: 09/12/2020

At the height of the last recession, the federal government invested $2 billion in workforce training and postsecondary education programs through the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grants. Our team at New America spent over two years researching the nation’s unprecedented investment in community colleges and sharing lessons learned from evidence-based innovations implemented through TAACCCT.

We invite you to join us from 2:00-3:30 on Tuesday December 8 for a virtual event featuring leading researchers sharing lessons on how TAACCCT can shape public policy and practice moving forward. This webinar highlights lessons from TAACCCT to support community colleges and students who are experiencing the detrimental impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Lessons from rigorous evaluation studies of TAACCCT grants have a great deal to teach us during and after COVID-19. 

Join the conversation online by using #investinCC and following @NewAmericaEd.

Agenda:

Opening Remarks:

Iris Palmer, New America
Pamela Eddy, William & Mary
Introducing New Research on TAACCCT: 

Michelle Van Noy, Rutgers University
Heather McKay, Rutgers University
Lessons Learned from TAACCCT Evaluations:

Lauren Eyster, Urban Institute
Debra Bragg, New America & Bragg & Associates, Inc.
Federal Investment in Community Colleges: Past and Future

Ivy Love, New America
Q and A with Panelists:

John Cosgrove, Cosgrove & Associates
Kate Dunham, Social Policy Research Associates
Jennifer Freeman, Jobs for the Future
Tashera Gale, Higher Ed Insight
Cheryl Martin, United States Department of Labor
Derek Price, DVP-Praxis, LTD
Debra Bragg, New America & Bragg & Associates, Inc (moderator)

https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/events/past-lessons-future-practice-taaccct-and-economic-recovery-community-colleges/

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