Connecting Credentials: Connecting Workforce & Academic Credentials in Systemic Ways

Mary Alice McCarthy will make the case for Flipping the Paradigm of credit transfer practices to build training-based pathways to the Bachelor’s degree. Keith Bird will discuss how increased employer engagement and better integration of the academic and workforce roles of community colleges is transforming both academic and workforce credentials and creating pathways between the two. Evelyn Ganzglass will moderate and discuss six dimensions of credential quality that post-secondary educational institutions and other credential providers can use as a guide to developing more connected credentials.