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Building a Skills-based Future

The skills-based hiring movement is gaining well-deserved momentum for several compelling reasons. Yet, despite considerable enthusiasm, recent research reveals that skills-based hiring influenced fewer than 1 in 700 hires last year, with most of the change attributed to a small subset of companies. BHEF is working to ensure that we marry the best of skills-based approaches with ensuring that all Americans also have access to affordable, high-quality, credential pathways into the economy of the future. Full article

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Posted October 18, 2024

The Business-Higher Education Forum's fall convening addressed the challenges we face connecting talent to opportunity and focused on co-designing solutions to meet the fast-evolving needs of learners, industry, and our economy. Read more about what's next.

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Five Early Insights from BHEF’s Inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellowship

Posted August 16, 2024

Earlier this year, BHEF launched its first-ever Faculty Innovation Fellowship. The fellowship brings together a curated network of faculty members – nominated by the presidents, chancellors, or deans of BHEF-member institutions and strategic partners – to launch or enhance new or innovative employer-aligned concepts on their campus as capstone projects. 

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Higher Education as the Partner of Choice to Employers for Upskilling and Reskilling – Strategies that Work

Posted July 15, 2024

The time is ripe for business to partner with higher education on models for upskilling and reskilling. Higher education can demonstrate its value in developing upskilling initiatives in partnership with business in three compelling ways.

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