Can This Tiny Career College Really Become ‘America’s Work-Force Partner’? – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Can this tiny career college really become ‘America’s work-force partner’?
On its first go-round operating what it called “the largest nonprofit career-college system in America,” ECMC Group didn’t win many fans. That’s putting it mildly.
Now, with a new chief executive who spent his first year on the job studying the career-training landscape, a much-reduced footprint of campuses, and a student population that is minuscule compared with three years ago, the system is preparing to rise again.
Done right, the reboot could create a powerful new national model for postsecondary education’s role in work-force training.