Introduction

Career and Technical Education

Designing Today for the Workforce of Tomorrow.

Employers and the State Department tell us there’s a skills gap. With current jobs evolving and new jobs being created, how do we prepare our children for a world we can’t predict? How do we teach them to be agile enough to take on any job and be nimble enough to jump jobs as those jobs change? How do we help current employees retrain to meet the evolving needs of their employers or to succeed in self-employment? A growing answer to that is strong career and technical education (CTE). No longer the limited vocational training of the 1980s, CTE embodies a broad assemblage of programs and pathways aimed at producing workers whose skills match economic demands in areas as diverse as business, health sciences, information technology, agriculture, and hospitality. Career + Technical Education focuses on student success, aligning the needs of employers with workforce and talent development.

CREATE - Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise