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It Isn't Easy Being Green: Overcoming the Challenges of Building a Green Workforce
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Hemmelman, Chris – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
As community and technical colleges work to train workers for green-energy jobs, they face myriad challenges. Among them are the recession and the financial strain it places on institutions' ability to develop programs, trying to meet the demand for trained workers that is a projection and not a certainty, and training low-skilled individuals for…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Energy Education, Labor Force Development