This op-ed was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. Recently, a national conversation has intensified about how an educated workforce is perhaps the most critical component of the “post-Great Recession” economy. This attention and refocusing among policymakers and business leaders is driven by an alarming fact: By 2020, nearly 75 percent of all jobs in… Continue reading A model for higher education accessibility, affordability, and results
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Vail Daily column: Education is an economic driver
Dr. Jason Glass, superintendent of Eagle County Schools; Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, president and CEO of Colorado Mountain College; and Chris Romer president and CEO of Vail Valley Partnership, co-authored this editorial, first published in the Vail Daily. A healthy and diverse economy pays almost innumerable benefits to a community. A few of these positive… Continue reading Vail Daily column: Education is an economic driver
What will drive future state economic success?
CMC President Carrie Besnette Hauser and Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, addressed economic development at a recent Vail Valley Partnership event. A Vail Daily News recap of the event, first published in the Vail Daily, is reprinted below. VAIL — Colorado’s first regional economic initiative was completed before… Continue reading What will drive future state economic success?