Future Perspectives

Transformational change in education, workplace, family, and community settings

Today’s economy, based in technology and learning, has created difficult challenges for youth, adults, communities, and societies around the globe, influencing how people live, how businesses and families function, and how communities are sustained. New knowledge about “learning” in the workplace-community-family environment in an important global resource.

Strategic Priorities

The following four strategic priorities will guide the Center’s work over the next five years:

Examining, re-defining, and integrating career development & learning.

Inquiries will document the prominent features of career-related learning and development initiatives, the effects of these practices in multiple settings, and the potential for integrating more deeply career development and learning experiences.

Evaluation/Continuous Improvement.

Center-led teams will strengthen the design of instruction, mentoring/guidance, and assessment practices to improve outcomes for learners with and without special needs.

Strengthening organization and institutional capacity.

New studies will enhance out understanding of the key practices and outcomes associated with new organizational and systemic approaches aimed at advancing career development and learning for youths and adults.

Aligning policy & systematic improvements.

Projects and studies will examine the influence of policies, accountability requirements, and systems improvement strategies.