Career Education Solving a Need

The media continues to report that America is experiencing a shortage of skilled workers. In fact, a 2015 study sponsored by The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte indicates there is likely to be over 3 million manufacturing jobs that need to be filled over the next decade. This widening gap in manufacturing skills is largely contributed to the aging of the workforce and retirement of baby-boomers and economic expansion. The solution is reported to be an increased focus on advanced skills training and apprenticeships so that more people may acquire journeyman level of skills needed to fill these positions.

Alliance, in its efforts to support higher education and learning, introduced the Career Education Grant Program in 2012. The primary reason the grant program came about was as a means to offer assistance for those members who want to pursue an occupation that requires a specific skill set and prefer to attend a vocational or technical school over the traditional four-year college program. Alliance members have the opportunity to receive a $1,000 grant toward tuition when attending an accredited two-year trade or technical school program. If you are interested in a career requiring advanced skills training, click here to learn more about the Alliance Career Education Grant Program.

Alliance congratulates the following 2015 Career Education Grant Program recipients and applauds their pursuit of lifelong achievement: