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Save the Date! Next Essential Discussions -  Closing the Skills Gap: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education


I am pleased to invite you to Closing the Skills Gap: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education – the fourth event in our series of Essential Discussions: Conversations at Monroe Community College, a series that explores urgent topics that are shaping the postsecondary agenda.

MCC will host this one-day colloquium on Tuesday, May 6, 2014. For this event,  national speakers will share labor market data on the state of middle-skill jobs as well as promising best practices and emerging opportunities in higher education that address these shortfalls in the workforce. This event will be held from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm in the Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center on the Brighton Campus.

The colloquium will feature William Symonds, educational reformer, international speaker, and author of Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s seminal Pathways to Prosperity Project; Jeffrey Selingo, The Chronicle of Higher Education’s contributing editor and author of College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students (virtual presentation); Dr. Cathrael Kazin; chief academic officer at the College for America at Southern New Hampshire University; and a response panel with some of the Greater Rochester-area’s leading educators, community, and business leaders.

In the coming months, you will receive additional information regarding the colloquium. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Sheila Strong, executive assistant to the president, at "mailto:EssentialDiscussions@monroecc.edu". You can also share your comments on this event or topic on Twitter using the hashtag #MCCdiscussion. This event is free and open to the public. I hope you will plan to join us!

I look forward to seeing you at what promises to be a provocative and essential conversation.

Anne M. Kress
Office of the President
02/27/2014