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CAEL in the News:
Fall, 2009 - Lumina Foundation Focus
The Lumina Foundation's report focusing on how colleges and universities are serving adult students featuring CAEL.
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September 4, 2009 - ACT in new tuition benefits management venture
Published in Gazetteonline
An article on the CAEL and ACT jointly created new company, EdLink LLC.
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September 3, 2009 - Project to find work for seniors
By Helen Dennis, published in the Daily Breeze
An article on the Tapping Mature Talent program that CAEL is working on with the Department of Labor.
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September 2, 2009 - CAEL and ACT Form Tuition Benefits Management Company
Published in Chief Learning Officer
An article on the CAEL and ACT jointly created new company, EdLink LLC.
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August 13, 2009 - Mayor Plans Millions More to Aid Community Colleges
By Javier Hernandez, published in The New York Times
An article on Mayor Bloomberg's initiative aimded at increasing the number of skilled laborers who enter fields like nursing and green technology. This includes a quote from CAEL President and CEO Pamela Tate.
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August 11, 2009 - U.S. Department of Labor Awards $10 Million to Train Older Workers
Published in Talent Management
An article on the Department of Labor's Awards and CAEL's work to train older workers.
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August 11, 2009 - U.S. Department of Labor Awards $10 Million to Train Older Workers
Published in Chief Learning Officer
An article on the Department of Labor's Awards to train older workers.
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August 6, 2009 - U.S. Department of Labor awards $10 million to promote older workers in job market
By John Bracchitta, published in The DailyTell
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor.
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August 5, 2009 - $10 Million Will Train Older Workers for Jobs in Growing Industries
Published in PNN Online
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor.
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August 4, 2009 - Nonprofit Receives $1 Million Boost For Older Workers
Published in Inside Indiana Business
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor focusing on the award that Indiana received.
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August 3, 2009 - U.S. Department of Labor awards $10 million to promote older workers in job market
By Emily Brandon, published in U.S. News and World Report
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor.
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August 3, 2009 - ME receives $1M to train older workers
Published in Mainebiz
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor focusing on the award that Maine received.
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July 30, 2009 - Labor Grant Focused On Connecting Older Workers To Growing Industries
Published in The Maine Public Broadcasting Network
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor focusing on Maine.
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July 30, 2009 - Group awarded $1M to train older workers
Published in The Business Journal of Milwaukee
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor focusing on the Milwaukee area.
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July 30, 2009 - Goodwill Inds. gets $1M to train over-55s
Published in the Houston Business Journal
An article on the Aging Worker Initiative work that CAEL is doing with the Department of Labor focusing on Houston.
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July 2, 2009 - Is the City of Dallas Really Going Green, Or Just Talking Till It's Blue in the Face?
By Alexa Schirtzinger, published in Dallas Observer Blogs
An article on what the city of Dallas can do to become greener and how the work that CAEL has done in San Antonio can be used as a model.
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June 16, 2009 - Students May Earn Credit for Experience
Published in The Post - Searchlight
An article on the University System of Georgia and the USG Adult Learning Consortium
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June 5, 2009 - The Friday Memo
CAEL President Pamela Tate recently presented at an Illinois Board of Higher Education event and her presentation highlighted the importance of reaching adult learners.
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May, 2009 - CLASP's Shifting Gears website
CLASP recently launched a new website designed to help states increase the number of low-income working adults who have the skills and credentials they need to compete for jobs in demand. Shifting Gears is a Joyce Foundation-sponsored initiative that aims to promote regional economic growth by aligning adult education, workforce development and postsecondary education in five Midwestern states – Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. The website is intended to shine a spotlight on innovative approaches in these states and provide information about promising policies and practices that work across the nation.
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April 6, 2009 - Reality Check: The “Green Jobs" Revolution Starts with Green Skills
Published in nuPOLIS online
Article about the work CAEL has done with the city of San Antonio.
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April 1, 2009 - Skills to Learn, to Restart Earnings
By John Leland, published in The New York Times online
CAEL President Pamela Tate is quoted in this New York Times article about retired adults who are gaining new skills to help pay the bills.
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December 29, 2008 - Stretch Your Dollar: Get A College Degree For Less
seen on CBS Chicago
CAEL President Pamela Tate is featured in this segment on what students can do to earn their college degrees for less.
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October 30, 2008 - Turning Life Experience Into College Credit
by Rachel Aviv, published on The New York Times online
New York Times article about prior learning assessment and the process that colleges adhere to that are published by CAEL.
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October, 2008 - Gazette Minute Interviews
Published in The Greentree Gazette
An interview with Pamela Tate, President & CEO of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning as seen in The Greentree Gazette.
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October, 2008 - NACTEL Announces Development of Online Career Planning Tool for Telecommunications Workers
published on the Department of Labor's website
NACTEL has recently announced it will build a new, interactive, web-based career mapping tool to serve the incumbent telecommunications workforce as well as those who want to enter the industry.
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October, 2008 - Leadership Gap
by Pamela Tate, published in Leadership Excellence
The article, located on page 14, outlines nine exemplary practices that can help build emerging leaders.
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September 12, 2008 - Saving for your education... again
heard on Marketplace Money
This broadcast talks about Lifelong Learning Accounts.
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August 26, 2008 - CEO Council for Growth Releases Talent Management Report
published in MarketWatch
This article talks about the Talent Management Report and how CAEL's work helped to make this report possible.
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July 23, 2008 - Chicago Mayor Presents WorkforceChicago Award
published in MarketWatch
This article talks about the Annual WorkfroceChicago Award and one of this years awardees Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Inc.
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July 22, 2008 - Letter to the Editor
by Randall Johnson, published in the Toronto Star
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July 13, 2008 - Scholarship program creates virtual K-14 system in Houston County
by Jim Cook, published in the Dothan Eagle
This article talks about the projected shortfall of necessary degrees in Alabama and how one community is working on this issue.
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June 25, 2008 - Report On Adult Learning
published in Wired Nation
Article talks about the Adult Learning in Focus report.
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June 2008 - Adults Need More Support for Advanced Education, Study Shows
by Theresa Minton-Eversole, published in SHRM HR News Online
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June 11, 2008 - Letter to the Editor
by Pamela Tate, published in The New York Times
Letter in response to an article in the New York Times regarding Student Loans and 2-year colleges.
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June 11, 2008 - Squabbling over dollars masks real problems of California public schools
by Dan Walters, published in The Sacramento Bee
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June 6, 2008 - $232,000 grants from Fund for Our Economic Future aim to improve worker skills
by Tom Breckenridge, published in Cleveland.com
This article talks about the recent grant awarded to CAEL to help build worker skills in the Ohio region.
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June 2, 2008 - Many Adults Left Behind
by Scott Jaschik, published in InsideHigherEd
This article highlights some of the findings from our recent publication, Adult Learning in Focus.
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May 19, 2008 - Promoting Life-Altering Learning
by Barbara Rose, published in The Chicago Tribune
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May 11, 2008 - Adult Learners are Key to Stay Competitive
by Matthew Dembicki, published in Community College Times
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April 28, 2008 - CVS Caremark and JVS Announce Grand Opening of the Boston Regional Learning Center
CVS Caremark, in partnership with Jewish Vocational Service and their One-Stop Career Center, officially opened the company's first CVS/pharmacy Regional Learning Center in Boston. The Regional Learning Center houses classrooms and a mock CVS/pharmacy store—complete with a state-of-art pharmacy, photo lab and beauty center—to train new and current associates, from entry level to management. In 2008 alone they aim to train more than 3,000 new and current employees at this center, providing significant workplace advancement opportunities for the Boston community.
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April 24, 2008 - Lawmakers Should Focus on Adult Students, Says Report With State-by-State Data
by Libby Sander, published in News Blog The Chronicle of Higher Education
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February 8, 2008 - Why Colleges Should Welcome the Return of the Boomers
by Harris Wofford,
published in The Chronicle of Higher Education
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January 30, 2008 - Tell the candidates: don't forget to aim for the middle
Co-authored by Women Employed, Chicago Jobs Council, and Pamela Tate of CAEL, this Op-Ed ran in the on-line version of the Chicago Tribune.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - AOL Online
- Adult Learners Find Education Breaks Down Barriers-Tate
reports that older students who enter the classroom armed
with a packed resume may be able to use their life experience
to knock a few credits off of their degree program. "When
people say 'I don’t need to go back into the classroom
because I have 20 years of experience,' we try to tell them
how they can translate that into college credit," Tate
says. "They may have a lot of experience, but a secondary
credential [like a new degree or certification] can help provide
new opportunities."
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here to read the article
July 12, 2007 - Philadelphia -
At the Education Commission of the States' National Forum
on Educational Policy state policy makers debated
and discussed topics including student record systems, modular
remedial coursework, and efforts to understand the adult learner.
Cheryl D. Blanco, vice president for lifelong learning policy
and research for the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning,
described an ongoing effort to develop a series of indicators
to track how adult learners are doing, in terms of affordability
of programs, their levels of educational attainment, and their
aspirations and completion rates, among other measurements.
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here to read the article
May 3, 2007 - CAEL to launch LiLA demonstration
and policy work in San Francisco
Grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies Will Support Project
This Fall, The Council for Adult and Experiential
Learning (CAEL) will invite San Francisco employers to participate in
a new Lifelong Learning Account (LiLA) pilot project focused on serving
the needs of minority and lower-income older workers. A LiLA account is
an employer-matched, portable, worker-owned account used to finance career-related
education and training. It is similar in concept to a 401(k): an employee
who contributes to his or her LiLA account has their contribution matched
by their employer. Ongoing LiLA demonstration projects by CAEL in Chicago,
northeastern Indiana, San Francisco and by the state of Maine are helping
older employees at all levels afford the education and training they want
and need in order to retain work in a changing economy. The pilot project,
funded by a $1.41 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, will
run for three years, following a six month planning period.
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March 6, 2007 - New RFP for Community College
Initiatives To Help Boomers Prepare for Second Careers with
a Purpose. Civic
Ventures, a think tank and program incubator helping society
achieve the greatest return on experience, today announced
a new partnership with MetLife Foundation to explore how community
colleges can help those in the second half of life pursue
new careers for the greater good. With funding from MetLife
Foundation, Civic Ventures will provide up to 10 grants of
$25,000 each to community colleges developing innovative ways
to prepare boomers for careers in education, health care,
social services, and other similar fields.
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to read the RFP
March 2007 - San Jose/Evergreen
Community College District Newsletter, Number 11, p. 8.
"We see LiLAs as a wonderful opportunity to recognize
and reward our incumbent workers, while filling our own workforce
needs at the same time," says UCSF Medical Center Director
of Human Resources Jennifer Hermann. "We truly
believe from previous on-site training experience that if
workers invest their own money in education, they are ten
times more likely to follow through and be serious about completing
their education. And that's worth investing in as an employer."
Click here to download the PDF
Pamela Tate’s Presentation at the Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) International Conference on October 16-18th 2006 in Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Other presentations from the conference are now being offered by CAPLA and its Recognition for Learning web site.
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Veterans Go Online: Minnesota Leads the Charge , ACE Centerpoint
As the recipient of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning’s 2006 Institutional Service Award, Minnesota Online has provided a much-needed educational program for the members of Minnesota’s National Guard.
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February 2, 2007 - Intel Cuts 100 Colleges
From Its Tuition-Reimbursement Program for Employees
By Stu Woo The Chronicle—In an unusual move late last
year, the Intel Corporation restricted the number of colleges
its employees could attend if they wanted to get their tuition
reimbursed.
Under the policy, started in November, employees at the computer-chip
giant can be reimbursed only for attending institutions accredited
by two selective business and engineering accrediting boards.
As a result, about 100 colleges and universities, including
several for-profit institutions like the University of Phoenix,
no longer qualify to participate in the company’s reimbursement
program. About 200 institutions remain eligible.
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January 19, 2007 - Giving ‘Prior Learning’
Its Due
by Pamela Tate and Becky Klein-Collins
InsideHigherEd.com—
Higher education is still the route to gaining credentials
for having acquired new skills and knowledge. But sometimes
college-level skills and knowledge are acquired not in a classroom
at a college or university, but on a job or through independent
study.
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here to read the article
January, 2007 - Senators Cantwell and Snowe
Introduce Education Account Bill to
Make American Workers More Competitive Washington,
DC—Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Olympia Snowe
(R-ME) introduced a bill Thursday, January 4, 2007 to encourage
employees to set aside money for their education costs, and
encourage employers to provide matching funds through Lifelong
Learning Accounts. Lifelong Learning Accounts (LiLAs) are
employer-matched, portable, individual savings accounts used
to finance education and training – similar to a 401(k),
but used for skill building and career advancement.
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the article
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