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Middle-Skills Learning Opportunities within SUNY. Jeff Livingston: The Most Neglected Skills. Watch Now. What are Middle-Skill jobs?. Jobs that require more than a high school education but less than a bachelor’s degree. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Jeff Livingston: The Most Neglected Skills
Watch Now
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What are Middle-Skill jobs?
Jobs that require more than a high school education but less than a bachelor’s degree.
Include occupations such as machinists, technicians and healthcare workers.
Account for nearly half of all current jobs in New York, and the majority of future job openings.
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The Forgotten Middle A growing gap between qualified middle-skill employees
and middle-skill jobs. There are approximately 4 million unfilled middle-skill jobs
(Dimon, 2014). In 2009, 46% of jobs in NYS were middle-skill (3.8 million
workers) Workers with two-year degrees in high demand occupations
can earn salaries that surpass those of four-year degrees (Carnevale, Rose, & Cheah, 2011).
Two-year degree holders in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math) have greater lifetime earnings than four-year degree holders in most other career areas.
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The “College-for-All” Mentality “Encourages all students to plan on college, regardless of
their past achievement” (Rosenbaum, 2001). Pushes underprepared students toward a four-year college
at the expense of vocational programs. Has created an surplus of four-year college graduates that
exceeds the number of college-level jobs available.35% of all four-year college graduates currently have
jobs that require less than a college degree (Vedder, 2010).
12 to 24 million U.S. jobs – most requiring middle-skills training – may go unfilled between now and 2020 (Gordon, 2009).
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Manpower Group Annual Survey revealstop 10 hardest jobs to fill in the U.S. in 2013:
Skilled Trades Sales Representatives Drivers IT Staff Accounting & Finance Staff Engineers Technicians Management/Executives Mechanics Teachers
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SUNY Middle-skill training opportunities
Middle-
Skills SUNY
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Computers
Support Specialist
Information Systems
SUNY Associate Program Options
Computer Information
Systems (Several Tech Colleges and
CCs)
Information Technology
(Several Tech Colleges and
CCs)
Networking Technologies (Several Tech Colleges an
Several CCs )
Cybersecurity (Alfred and Several CCs)
Geospatial Technologies
(MVCC)
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Construction
Carpenters
SUNY Program Options
Diesel Technology(Alfred, Cobleskill, Morrisville)
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Healthcare
Dental Hygienist
Possible SUNY Program Options
Histo-technician(Cobleskill)
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Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
Aircraft Mechanics
Related SUNY Program Options
HVAC(Alfred, Canton, Delhi, and CCs)
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Public Safety
EMT, Paramedic
SUNY Program Options
Criminal Justice/Home-land Security(Canton, Delhi, Farmingdale and CCs)
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Service
Chef
SUNY Program Options
Culinary Arts(Alfred, Cobleskill, Delhi, Morrisville and some CCs)
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Green Energy
Conservation
SUNY Program Options
Renewable Energy Technologies (Canton, Clinton, Jefferson, Morrisville)
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Other
Architectural
Drafters
SUNY Program Options
Drafting (Alfred and several CCs)
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SourcesCarnevale, A. P., Rose, S. J., & Cheah, B. (2011). The college payoff: Education, occupations, lifetime earnings. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Goodwin, B. (2012, April). Research says/don’t overlook middle-skill jobs. College, Careers, Citizenship, 69, 86-87.
Gordon, E. E. (2009, September). The future of jobs and careers. Techniques, 84(6), 28-31.
New York’s forgotten middle-skill jobs. (March, 2011). National Skills Coalition. Retrieved from http://www.fmsworkforcesolutions.org/Middle-Skills%20Jobs%20report%20(r).pdf
Rosenbaum, J. (2001). Beyond college for all: Career paths for the forgotten half. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Vedder, R. (2010, December). The great college degree scam [blog post]. Retrieved from Innovations: Insights and Commentary on Higher Education, Chronicle of Higher Education at http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/the-great-college-degree-scam/28067