On October 5, 2015, some 200 individuals representing nearly 170 organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. for a one-day summit on a critical issue: the need for change in our nation’s fragmented system of credentialing. The National Summit on Credentialing was convened by three organizations — Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW), the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and Lumina Foundation – on behalf of the Connecting Credentials partnership. The summit represented a first step in articulating a shared vision of a reformed credentialing system ─ one that will better serve the needs of today’s students, employers and educators.
Connecting Credentials is pleased to include the report on the National Summit at HERE. If you were not able to attend, we hope you will take some time to peruse it to get a sense of the excitement and substance of the discussions held there.
At the summit, participants pledged to work together to help transform the system and urged that we move quickly from problem identification to action. The Connecting Credentials partnership took this expression of urgency to heart and is forming work groups that will develop specific action plans that can properly channel the momentum we saw at the summit. These groups will finish their work this spring. Following that, we’ll issue a report containing the results of that work. Over the balance of the year, we will encourage and support implementation of recommendations from the report, as well as develop methods to measure the impact of these efforts.
