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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.

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.

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.