How Four Community College Faculty Are Preparing Students for a Global Workforce

Feb 8, 2024

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Today, young people are entering a workforce that is more global than ever before—and community and technical colleges can and should be part of the process to prepare the future global workforce.
Community college faculty members across the country are leveraging Digital Promise’s suite of tools and resources to incorporate global competence into their career and technical education (CTE) courses.
Digital Promise’s Heather Singmaster recently connected with a handful of these community college faculty members to hear their perspectives on why global skills are so needed in today’s workforce and how they are preparing their students to meet this moment.

How are career and technical education (CTE) educators and community college faculty preparing students to enter a global workforce? Digital Promise’s Heather Singmaster recently chatted with a few community college faculty members who completed a training around how to integrate global competence into their courses using Digital Promise’s tools and modules. They are now intentionally creating learning environments that expose students to topics of global significance and help equip them with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to compete and connect on an international scale.

These four faculty members–who teach at community colleges in Hawaii, Illinois, and Nevada–teach topics ranging from hospitality and tourism to cybersecurity, but they all share a common goal: to create more inclusive, engaging learning experiences for their students.

Read Heather’s article for the Associate for Technical and Career Education (ACTE) for these faculty members’ perspectives on the need for global skills in today’s workplace, the intersection between global competence and career and technical education, and ways in which other community college educators can incorporate global concepts into their curriculum.