✨ Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, Debra Ciamacca, & Dion Flynn reflect on their experience as inaugural Us@250 Fellows.

Are you a journalist reporting on local human-interest stories that engage our core themes of pride, reckoning, and aspiration?

📝 APPLY: 5/17 bit.ly/3YRf84b

A big congrats to these 20 community colleges named College Excellence Program prize semi-finalists!

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Register for Stephen Burd's book event next Thursday at New America - Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management

First 20 attendees will get free copies. Lunch provided following

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Congrats Matt, Toby, and AAU!

New AI-focused degree programs are popping up at US community colleges, with hopes of building a diverse pipeline of 'blue-collar' AI jobs—and with help from Big Tech, reports jackie snow

'Who’s going to say no to Google, let alone a community college?”

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NASEM is looking for nominees to serve on the next ARPA-E evaluation study group. More: nationalacademies.org/our-work/evalu… National Academies ARPA-E

Amid fears that tech will erase jobs, more community colleges—and more tech companies—are banking on new two-year AI programs. f-st.co/y4JgIkG

Thanks to National Academies & Arizona State University's Issues in Science and Technology for the invitation to comment on Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Bill Bonvillian & John Liu's proposal calling for a #technologist occupational category in #advancedmanufacturing .

Smart questions being asked here. Check it out -

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Thanks to jackie snow for another great story covering #AI education at #communitycolleges and for including my thoughts in Fast Company

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Throwing a dart - anyone have insight on why U.S. Digital Service wasn't engaged sooner in the #FAFSA debacle and how next time could be different?

The federal financial aid system is leaning on COBAL and it wasn't deployed...why?

Jennifer Pahlka Federation of American Scientists🔬 Lee Gardner Eric Hoover

When this group does something, the community takes note.

When this group does something this cool, everyone should take note.

Congrats Kumar Garg, Tom, and team. Excited to learn more.

OECD updates AI Principles to stay abreast of rapid technological developments

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To meet the goals of CHIPS, we have to fill the hundreds of thousands of jobs we're creating.

We won’t achieve that without growing our construction workforce to include more women. It’s simple math.

Today, we’re announcing steps with Intel and Micron to make that happen.

From just compensation to managing work & family, building a better labor system starts with understanding how people understand work and worker power.

Check out FrameWorks Institute new work to learn more about how, together, we can create a #WorkShift : frameworksinstitute.org/work-shift-lan…

Not to miss event in the LA area featuring New America Better Life Lab's Vicki Shabo

Read the latest New America piece, which highlights our report, Worker Power and Voice in the AI Response, in which we detail 9 recommendations for implementing AI in the workplace in an ethical, worker-centered way. Read more from Julian Lutz ⬇️
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The world's first customizable, #AI -powered massage experience. According to ABMP there were 321k massage therapists in 2023.

On face, we might think uh-oh #automation . Probable.

But worth asking how tools like this could #augment workers too

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Journalists, writers, storytellers: two weeks left to apply!

We're looking to help tell local stories, & this New America Us@250 fellowship comes with a $10k stipend + travel
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