Playbook: The Power of Partnerships in Creating Incremental Credentials – Credential As You Go
Miami Dade College Registered Apprenticeship Program – Florida
Career & Technical Education (CTE): Building Talent Pipelines
The Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) – Accreditation Option for 6 Southern States
Tuition Reciprocity & Regional Tuition Exchange Programs
Industry-Specific High Schools: Bridging Education and Workforce Needs
Unizin
State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAAs)
CareerEdge Funders Collaborative
Growth of Digital Tools: Digital Wallets, Skills Passports, and Digital ID Wallets
Florida Collegiate Purple Star Campus Program (Military)
Purple Star Campus
Colleges/Universities in National Innovation Network’s I-Corps Hubs – National Science Foundation
Expanding Institutional Capacity for Employer Engagement in Credential Innovation – UPCEA
Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve)
Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) is a global non-profit organization founded in 1966 and headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida. AIR is dedicated to supporting higher education professionals in the use […]
National Work Readiness Credentials – National Work Readiness Council
Overview The National Work Readiness Council is a national nonprofit workforce development, training, and advocacy organization formed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The NWRC works to identify skill gaps and […]
National Work Readiness Council
Build Better Careers Initiative – CAEL
Overview In July 2024, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) launched a 3-year workforce development initiative with support from Truist Foundation’s Where it Starts Initiative. CAEL is creating pathways to […]
Seal of Excelencia Framework – Institution Certification to Serve Latino Students
Overview Excelencia in Education’s mission is to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. In 2021, Excelencia in Education established the Seal of Excelencia, a national certification for higher education institutions that […]
Promising Practices Database: Community College Baccalaureate Degrees
Overview The Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA) created a Collection of Promising Practices to Advance Quality, Equity, and Success in Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs, including proven solutions for making […]
Work+ and Work+Collective – Consortium managed by Arizona State University
Overview The Work+ and affiliated program, Work+Collective, is a consortium of 17 two- and four-year institutions across the U.S. that are redesigning student employment. Institutions in the consortium offer a range […]
Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI)
Playbook: Incremental Credentialing at the Graduate Level (Credential As You Go)
Overview Credential As You Go is an initiative working with many partners toward a nationally recognized transferable incremental credentialing system that increases the number of high-quality, post-high school credentials that lead […]
Interstate Regional Compacts in Higher Education
State Opportunity Index – Strada Education Foundation
Overview In April 2024, Strada Education Foundation published The State Opportunity Index to help state policymakers and higher education institutions assess how well they are leveraging post-high school education — […]
Florida Ready to Work – Assessments & Courseware
Overview Florida Ready to Work is a career readiness training and credentialing program established in 2020 by Chapter 445 Section 06 – 2020 Florida Statutes – The Florida Senate: Florida Ready […]
Kresge Foundation
Open Educational Resources (OER)
STEM Talent Challenge – EDA
Overview The STEM Talent Challenge is an initiative by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), a bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce, that aims to build STEM talent training systems […]
Multi-State Agreement: Data Analytics for Student Success, Institutional Efficiencies, & Integration – Midwestern Higher Education Compact & SAS Institute, Inc.
Overview An agreement between the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) and SAS Institute makes SAS software bundles available to MHEC members at discounted prices. SAS software capabilities include data access, […]
Microcredentials for Teacher Education – State Developments & Digital Promise
Overview Several U.S. states are incorporating microcredentialing into their educator (teacher) preparation and/or professional development. The 2020 Virginia legislative session passed an Act to require its State Department of Education […]
Credentialing: Policy & Implementation – Florida
Overview In 2021, Florida’s legislature passed HB 1505, which amended section (s.) 1007.25, Florida Statutes (F.S.). The Bill requires public postsecondary institutions to award students a nationally recognized digital badge when […]
Mapping Upward Project – OCTAE
Overview The Mapping Upward Project was a two-year project (2015-2017) of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). The project’s aim was to recognize […]
Shift Work Forward (formally National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
Inventory of Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs
Overview Currently, 25 states allow their community colleges by legislative action to offer some baccalaureate degrees: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, […]
CASE Network: Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® (CASE®) – 1EdTech Consortium
Overview The 1EdTech Consortium launched the Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange CASE Network) with the mission that all state academic standards and national learning standards should be in the CASE […]
Research: A Typology and Policy Landscape Analysis of State Investments in Short Term Credential Pathways
Overview Many states have adopted strategies to recognize short-term credentials, however, there has been little coordinated information about these developments. HCM Strategists conducted a study (Stephanie M. Murphy, 2023) to […]
HCM Strategists (HCM)
Pathways to Credentials – CTE Technical Assistance (US Department of Education)
Overview The Pathways to Credentials Technical Assistance Cohort, supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), recognized that the stackable credentials approach can […]
2U, Inc. / edX Bootcamp Partnership
July 2024 Update On July 25, 2024, 2U Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to restructure, reduce its debt load and wrap up the process by September 2024. […]
Workforce Training Partnerships, Good Jobs Challenge, US Department of Commerce
Overview In August 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded grant awards to 32 industry-led workforce training partnerships across the U.S. as part of the $500 million Good Jobs Challenge […]
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
University Innovation Alliance
Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce
Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) USA
Transfer, Learning Mobility & Articulation
Concurrent / Dual Enrollment
Apprenticeship / Apprenticeships
Community College Baccalaureate Degrees (CCB)
Accreditation
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
Propel Polk! Credentialing 21st Century Skills for Postsecondary Success
Overview Propel Polk! Credentialing 21st Century Skills for Postsecondary Success is a pilot program to teach durable skills to 11th and 12th graders in the Polk County (Florida) School District. […]
Jobs and Employment Data Exchange (JEDx)
Overview The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the T3 Innovation Network launched the Job Data Exchange (JDX) initiative in 2021 to develop a public-private approach for collecting and using […]