Reimagining Career Education – Inside Higher Ed
The Education Department plans to distribute more than $120 million in grants for short-term programs. Which pathways should that money fund?
While emergency grants for colleges and their students from the CARES Act have gotten much attention in the past few weeks, that funding isn’t the only stream of new federal money headed for higher education.
The U.S. Department of Education also is planning to distribute $127.5 million as part of its Reimagining Workforce Preparation grant program. But the department so far has released scant information about what sort of programs the grants should be used to fund, and through what sort of institutions.
“The Reimagining Workforce Preparation Grants are designed to expand short-term postsecondary programs and work-based learning programs in order to get Americans back to work and help small businesses return to being our country’s engines for economic growth,” reads an announcement from the department about the grants. A notice inviting applications gives an example of “course work that would help small businesses to recover and new entrepreneurs to thrive.”