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On June 8 at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST), EMSI will host a webinar to discuss the Economic Impact Study and how colleges across the country currently use it.

Basingstoke, UK – May 3, 2010 – ACTIVE Solutions Europe Ltd (ACTIVE), a leading supplier of geo-spatial and information solutions to the Education sector today, announced an exclusive agreement with the American-based company Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (EMSI). ACTIVE has become the sole authorised UK reseller for EMSI flagship products, the Economic Impact Study (EIS) [...]

As your college grows and offers better programs and helps more people find good jobs, you are becoming a valuable economic engine for your region.

EMSI provides a career services tool that directly links local jobseekers to your programs and let’s them access the EMSI’s in-depth, up-to-date data to find good jobs in your community. Career Coach is a very simple, easy-to-understand application that your college can place on its website.

In this day and age, local employment dynamics are always shifting. So how do you and your college keep up? How does your staff stay on the same page? How do you make sure each program you are offering is responsive to these changes?

Links of note from around the web on economic and workforce development and education: Time Magazine has a detailed look at what job creation might be like in the future, using an Austin, Texas-based firm as a case study. The great American job-creation machine always has been and will continue to be private enterprise. The [...]

Several enlightening community college-oriented articles and reports have come out recently. Here’s a quick rundown. Inside Higher Ed gives a good synopsis of a Center for American Progress policy paper on the lack of “quality, coordinated” career development services. The bottom line, argues CAP, is that the U.S. needs a new career counseling approach so [...]

Two links to pass along relating to jobs and unemployment: First, the Labor Department released the latest state-by-state unemployment rates, and 31 states added jobs in January. The biggest percentage decline in the jobless rate came in Michigan, which went from 14.5% to 14.3% — still the highest in the country, however, by 1.3% over [...]

With topics ranging from underemployment to community colleges tackling workforce development, here are some articles worth reading: Catherine Rampell of The New York Times‘ Economix blog looks at the broader measure of unemployment, the “U-6,” which stood at 16.2% at the end of 2009. “In three states — Michigan, California and Oregon — more than [...]

Here’s an assortment of articles and videos on education, workforce development, and economic issues: USA Today has a fascinating look at two cities in very different economic situations — Merced, Calif., and Lincoln, Neb. Merced has the second-highest unemployment rate (19.8%) in the nation; Lincoln has the second-lowest rate (4.1%). Inside Higher Ed has this [...]

Here’s a batch of articles that we found informative in recent days: The Community College Times writes about how ARRA funds have been used on the ground level for training. Michigan’s No Worker Left Behind program looks to be having success in helping people get and keep jobs, according to an article in the Detroit [...]

For Sector 1 data, click here The first table (2-A) deals with “green increased demand” occupations, as classified by the O*NET Resource Center, for the Transportation cluster; the second table (2-B) relates to “green enhanced skills” occupations for the same cluster. Click on the tables for a full-sized image Findings: The second table in this [...]

For Sector 2 data, click here The first table (3-A) deals with “green increased demand” occupations, as classified by the O*NET Resource Center, for the  Energy Efficiency cluster; the second table (3-B) relates to “green enhanced skills” occupations for the same cluster. Click on the tables for a full-sized image Findings: Nearly all the growth [...]

For sector 3 data, click here The first table (4-A) deals with “green increased demand” occupations, as classified by O*NET Resource Center, for the Green Construction cluster; the second table (4-B) relates to “green enhanced skills” occupations for the same cluster. Click on the tables for a full-sized image Findings: The losses seen in this [...]

For sector 4 data, click here The table deals with “green enhanced skills” occupations, as classified by the O*NET Resource Center, for the Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage cluster. Click on the table for a full-sized image Findings: Unlike the other clusters, there are no reported jobs/occupations based on O*NET research classified as “green [...]

For sector 6 data, click here The first table (7-A) deals with “green increased demand” occupations, as classified by O*NET, for the Research, Design, and Consulting Services cluster; the second table (4-B) relates to “green enhanced skills” occupations for the same cluster. Click on the tables for a full-sized image Findings: In the O*NET report, [...]

For sector 7 data, click here The first table (8-A) deals with “green increased demand” occupations, as classified by O*NET, for the Environment Protection cluster; the second table (8-B) relates to “green enhanced skills” occupations for the same cluster. Click on the tables for a full-sized image Findings: According to O*NET, this sector “covers activities [...]