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Keep Learning for your future
 
Changes in technologies and in the types of jobs available to us require that we recognize the importance of ongoing education beyond high school.  Whether it's attending technical school, college, university or workshops, ongoing training assists workers in remaining marketable and job ready.
 
Keep Learning Central Michigan is a movement to encourage ongoing learning so that the future of our communities will be strong and productive.
 
 

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  • None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in 2010 existed in 2004.

 

  • Rapidly changing technologies will make the skills required to perform current jobs obsolete within 5-10 years.

 

  • Individuals born from 1957 to 1964 held an average of 10.8 jobs from ages 18 to 42.

 

  • Only 26% of 25-34-year-olds Michigan hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, which leaves Michigan well behind the most educated states. 

 

 

 

The Cherry Commission (2004) made it clear that the economic problems in Michigan were mainly due to a lack of education in the workforce when they stated:

Michigan’s residents, businesses, and governments can either move forward to a future of prosperity and growth fueled by the knowledge and skills of the nation’s best educated population or they can drift backward to a future characterized by ever-diminishing economic opportunity, decaying cities, and population flight—a stagnant backwater in a dynamic world economy…Michigan can meet this challenge only if it has the courage to set and achieve within the next ten years a new expectation for learning: postsecondary education for all.

 

 

 

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