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More than 4 million people in the United States quit their jobs in October in what’s being called the Great Resignation. Cory Orr, who often worked 70 hours a week in three jobs, is one of those individuals.
Now he’s training in a fast-track program to become an industrial maintenance technician. The program, at Valencia College, aims to speed up the frustratingly slow pace of switching careers and help people like Orr get higher paying, steadier jobs.

Can a tribal college support its own community’s culture while also enrolling students from many other Native American groups? Tohono O’odham Community College in Arizona is committed to trying.
When the college moved its courses online during the pandemic and offered them without charge to any Native student, enrollment nearly doubled. It has since become a model for what other tribal colleges and universities can achieve through developing a strong online presence.

A new Idaho law stops short of barring instructors from teaching critical race theory, and Leslie Madsen, an associate professor of history at Boise State University, plans teach it in one of her spring courses.
Madsen broke down the nuances of the law in a Twitter thread telling students there was room in the course. She explains more in this interview.

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the chancellor of California’s 116 community colleges, recently took a four-month sabbatical in Washington to serve as a temporary senior advisor to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
Now back in California, he talks about that unique opportunity and the lessons learned.

Millions of American workers need upskilling and reskilling to keep up with today's constantly changing workforce demands.
Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education, describes how her company creates partnerships between some of the nation’s largest employers and top learning institutions to help employees pursue new skills, meaningful certifications, and even college degrees.

Arizona's goal of having 60 percent of adults with any postsecondary certificate or degree by 2030 is slipping further away, but advocates remain committed and the state's public universities are redoubling their efforts to bring in new students.
A new "promise program," for example, is providing guaranteed scholarships for low-income Arizona students to attend a state public university as part of efforts to bridge the worsening higher education attainment gap.