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Develop a skilled workforce while helping immigrant adult learners start a career
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
recruiting and retaining adult learners
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2155-6458
pISSN - 2155-644X
DOI - 10.1002/nsr.30572
Subject(s) - workforce , immigration , population , state (computer science) , unemployment , refugee , unemployment rate , work (physics) , political science , economic growth , demographic economics , sociology , demography , engineering , economics , law , computer science , mechanical engineering , algorithm
Southern Maine Community College is currently in the midst of an initiative to upscale its workforce called Building the Pipeline. “Our unemployment rate is historically low here, and we have a very aging population. Maine's death rate has outpaced its birth rate. We're the oldest state in the nation and the oldest population,” said James Whitten, Dean of the Midcoast Campus and satellite centers of SMCC, and Head of Workforce Development and Continuing Education. The majority of population growth in the state comes from “New Mainers,” which includes immigrants and refugees who have recently settled in the state. “It's vital that we get everyone who wants to work into a job,” Whitten said.