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How Associations Are Embracing Apprenticeships

Associations Now

The association’s training centers, on their own, have a membership of more than 5,000 workers, according to Engineering News-Record , and the apprenticeship programs are intended for the long haul: NECA rules mandate that workers take part in a five-year program and take 24 hours of continuing education every three years.

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Associations Work to Tackle Industry Workforce Shortages Head-On

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And that’s part of the reason, Balon was hired: to educate and reach out to people of all diversities about the merits of a career in landscape architecture. It’s filled with inspiring photos, case studies on project types, and some of the other nuts and bolts of the field.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

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The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Here are the educational events scheduled for next week. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Lisa Stahl, Data Project Manager, Columbia Books & Information Services.

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Wake Up to Educating the Future Workforce

Associations Now

Emerging technology is shifting our workforce toward intellectual capital and changing the ways we educate both students and adults. At the 2013 Digital Now conference , in multiple presentations—none of which were ostensibly related—the topic of education kept arising. I am a chronic abuser of the snooze button. Young members.

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A Case for the Association Summer Internship

Associations Now

The summer intern will have opportunities to contribute to a variety of projects, including SHRM’s largest event of the year, and gain a broad experience reflecting what it’s like to work at a professional membership association. . • the ability to do proofreading. research skills. technology/computer skills.

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digitalNow 2013 in Less Than 180 Seconds- #diginow13

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We have to create a new sputnik to invigorate education. You have to break bureaucracy & red tape, engage people on a project basis. John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design. Keynote panel with Dr. Michio Kaku. We are born scientists until we hit junior high school. Junior high school kills scientists.