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Missouri commissioner outlines push to link higher education and workforce to meet 60% attainment goal
Summary
Missouri Commissioner Bennett G. Boggs outlined plans to integrate higher education and workforce development—highlighting 23 job centers, a P20W longitudinal data system, rapid-response job fairs, apprenticeship growth and reentry education—as part of a strategy to raise postsecondary attainment and regional employment.
Bennett G. Boggs, Missouri’s commissioner of higher education and workforce development, told an audience at Washington University in St. Louis that Missouri is pursuing an integrated model of higher education and workforce services to raise postsecondary attainment and expand regional employment opportunities. "By the year 2030, 72% of all new jobs are going to require something past high school," Boggs said, citing research he follows from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
Boggs described the department as the product of an executive order from Governor Mike Parson in 2019 and said it combines three components—traditional higher-education functions, an office of workforce development and the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC)—to coordinate policy, budgeting, student aid and labor-market research. He said Missouri currently sits a little above 50% postsecondary attainment and that the state’s goal is 60%, with particular attention on…
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