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Audience questions zero in on career counseling, employer training and policymaker persuasion
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Summary
In the Q&A Dr. Jeff Stroll recommended mandatory, tenured career counseling, reproducing national analyses with state data to persuade legislators, and noted employer training declined since the early 1990s.
During the session Q&A, audience members pressed Dr. Jeff Stroll for practical policy steps. When asked why students do not use career services, Stroll suggested stronger staffing and reducing stigma: make career counseling a tenured, potentially mandatory position so students receive individual guidance. “If you were to make it mandatory, you would then have at least more individual focus,” he said.
On employer training, Stroll cited research by Erica Groshen pointing to a shift away from employer-provided training around the early 1990s and suggested the change may reflect cost shifting to the public sector and broader labor‑market restructuring. He described the decline as gradual rather than tied to a single policy move.
When asked how to convince legislators to accept workforce data, Stroll recommended working with practitioners and state data so local workforce and education leaders reproduce national results in their own context and bring employer voices to the table. He also repeated his earlier point that short standalone certificates often lack earnings returns, but certificates stacked with degrees can add value.
