This Issue Brief focuses on how employers can help communities strengthen partnerships, address equity, and improve attainment of postsecondary degrees and credentials.
Employers often play unique roles to support and pursue strategies for improving postsecondary attainment, along with community partners such as public education, higher education, government, and community based organizations. In this Brief, we describe why employers are important to community attainment initiatives, and explore considerations for communities who seek to authentically engage employers in these efforts.
We collected data through interviews with representatives from all 75 communities in the Lumina Foundation CPA initiative shortly after receiving CPA funding, visits to 4 communities, and follow-up interviews focused on employer engagement with 10 communities.
