Recent News
The Credential Differential: The Public Return to Increasing Postsecondary Credential Attainment
April 30, 2012
By 2025, the United States will need to produce about 24 million additional credentialed adults to remain globally competitive with leading Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries. Right now, the nation is losing ground and falling far behind. And yet, public investments in increasing the number of adults with a postsecondary credential remain stagnant. Read more…
Success By 6 initiative works to help kids excel
April 30, 2012
United Way of Lane County’s Success By 6 initiative is focused on ensuring that all children in our community are safe, healthy, cherished and enter school ready to learn. Read more….
Locally Connected
April 23, 2012
Feeney Wireless rides a wave of growth right here in Eugene. Read more…
Only 59 percent of Oregon high school grads try college, putting college degree goals far out of reach
April 17, 2012
Oregon high schools propel only six in 10 graduates to college, new data show, revealing just how far the state has to go to meet its aim of getting 80 percent to earn a
community college or university degree. Read more…
Federal Funds to Train Jobless Drying Up
April 9, 2012
Across the country, work force centers that assist the unemployed are being asked to do more with less as federal funds dwindle for job training and related services. Read more…
