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Strada awards 7 grants focused on building employer intermediary infrastructure

A new Strada grant aims to test and support the effectiveness of employer intermediaries, which can fill a critical gap between the learners and employers.

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Work-Based Learning: Who Gets Paid?

Work-based learning is linked to better early career outcomes, including higher earnings and greater likelihood of securing college-level employment. As part of the 2025 State Opportunity Index, states were benchmarked using student-reported participation in at least one of five types of paid work-based learning at public two- and four-year institutions: internships, apprenticeships, co-ops, practica, and undergraduate research experiences.

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Entry-Level Hiring in the AI Era: What Employers Are Thinking (and Doing)

To understand better how entry-level hiring is evolving in the early AI era Strada Institute for the Future of Work surveyed nearly 1,500 executives and senior talent leaders across the country.

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Strada awards 7 grants focused on building employer intermediary infrastructure
Work-Based Learning: Who Gets Paid?
Entry-Level Hiring in the AI Era: What Employers Are Thinking (and Doing)
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Public Viewpoint: National Overview

This nationally representative survey* of 1,000 American adults will be updated weekly.

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Some College and No Degree

In a collaborative study of more than 40,000 Americans who started attending college, but did not finish with a degree, this report from Strada Education Network, Lumina Foundation and Gallup Research provides insights into the reasons they stopped out of college, and what could help them return.

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Completion With A Purpose: Consumer-Driven Education and Training Policy

A “How To” Playbook for America’s Governors

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The New Geography of Skills

Using regional skill shapes to build a better learning ecosystem

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The New Learning Ecosystem

Building an education-to-employment system centered on adult learners.

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Changing the Value Equation in Higher Education

What do Americans value in their education? We haven’t really known, because too often learners have been absent from the conversation.

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Veterans Without Degrees

Prior research has shown that the skills and knowledge veterans gain in the U.S. military are often under-recognized and undervalued by civilian employers.

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Back to School?

The number of job openings in the United States now surpasses the number of people available and qualified to fill them. Through the Strada-Gallup Education Survey, we talk to Americans about their desire for more education and skills training and explore what motivates them to return to school.

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From College to Life

Relevance and the Value of Higher Education

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Online Student Success Symposium

Innovative Strategies to Support Today’s Online College Students

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Hiring for Success

Strada and Gallup share findings from their Strada-Gallup Employer Survey of a representative national sample of 1,139 adult employees involved in hiring decisions who participated in an online survey.

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Strada elects 3 new members to board of trustees

Choksi, Dyke and Markell join the governing board for the national social impact organization focused on strengthening education-to-employment pathways.

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More than 100 Strada Scholars graduate in Class of 2026

The students’ college education was supported by the Strada HBCU Initiative, which focuses on leadership development and elevating the transformative influence of historically Black colleges and universities. Forty-seven HBCUs partner with Strada as part of the initiative.

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Building the data infrastructure for Workforce Pell: A roadmap for states and institutions

The newly launched Model Workforce Pell Data Framework offers a practical roadmap for a robust data infrastructure aligned across education and workforce systems.

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How employers can embrace the time-tested benefits of work-based learning

The practice of learning on the job has been around for centuries, but its capacity to prepare learners for the workforce and expose businesses to emerging talent is generating modern excitement.

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How Mississippi made locally led coaching happen statewide

With dedicated career coaches in 90 percent of its public high schools, the state connects learners with information about education pathways to high-demand, high-wage jobs.

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Webinar | Putting Education to Work: How States Are Connecting College to Careers

In light of what the State Opportunity Index reveals about progress in individual states and nationally, panelists will highlight practical strategies that all who seek to connect education to opportunity can apply to their work.

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Class of 2025 includes first cohort of Strada Scholars

This year the Strada HBCU Initiative celebrates its fourth year — a milestone that includes the graduation of many students in the first cohort of Strada Scholars.

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