Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309256285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the global economy and significantly shifting workforce demand, requiring quick, adaptive responses. The pandemic has revealed the vulnerabilities of many organizations and regional economies, and it has accelerated trends that could lead to significant improvements in productivity, performance, and resilience, which will enable organizations and regions to thrive in the next normal. To explore how communities around the United States are addressing workforce issues laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and how they are taking advantage of local opportunities to expand their science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) workforces to position them for success going forward, the Board of Higher Education and Workforce of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of workshops to identify immediate and near-term regional STEMM workforce needs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop planning committee identified five U.S. cities and their associated metropolitan areas - Birmingham, Alabama; Boston, Massachusetts; Richmond, Virginia; Riverside, California; and Wichita, Kansas - to host workshops highlighting promising practices that communities can use to respond urgently and appropriately to their STEMM workforce needs. A sixth workshop discussed how the lessons learned during the five region-focused workshops could be applied in other communities to meet STEMM workforce needs. This proceedings of a virtual workshop series summarizes the presentations and discussions from the six public workshops that made up the virtual workshop series and highlights the key points raised during the presentations, moderated panel discussions and deliberations, and open discussions among the workshop participants.
Meeting Regional Stemm Workforce Needs in the Wake of Covid-19
Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309256285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the global economy and significantly shifting workforce demand, requiring quick, adaptive responses. The pandemic has revealed the vulnerabilities of many organizations and regional economies, and it has accelerated trends that could lead to significant improvements in productivity, performance, and resilience, which will enable organizations and regions to thrive in the next normal. To explore how communities around the United States are addressing workforce issues laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and how they are taking advantage of local opportunities to expand their science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) workforces to position them for success going forward, the Board of Higher Education and Workforce of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of workshops to identify immediate and near-term regional STEMM workforce needs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop planning committee identified five U.S. cities and their associated metropolitan areas - Birmingham, Alabama; Boston, Massachusetts; Richmond, Virginia; Riverside, California; and Wichita, Kansas - to host workshops highlighting promising practices that communities can use to respond urgently and appropriately to their STEMM workforce needs. A sixth workshop discussed how the lessons learned during the five region-focused workshops could be applied in other communities to meet STEMM workforce needs. This proceedings of a virtual workshop series summarizes the presentations and discussions from the six public workshops that made up the virtual workshop series and highlights the key points raised during the presentations, moderated panel discussions and deliberations, and open discussions among the workshop participants.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309256285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the global economy and significantly shifting workforce demand, requiring quick, adaptive responses. The pandemic has revealed the vulnerabilities of many organizations and regional economies, and it has accelerated trends that could lead to significant improvements in productivity, performance, and resilience, which will enable organizations and regions to thrive in the next normal. To explore how communities around the United States are addressing workforce issues laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and how they are taking advantage of local opportunities to expand their science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) workforces to position them for success going forward, the Board of Higher Education and Workforce of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of workshops to identify immediate and near-term regional STEMM workforce needs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop planning committee identified five U.S. cities and their associated metropolitan areas - Birmingham, Alabama; Boston, Massachusetts; Richmond, Virginia; Riverside, California; and Wichita, Kansas - to host workshops highlighting promising practices that communities can use to respond urgently and appropriately to their STEMM workforce needs. A sixth workshop discussed how the lessons learned during the five region-focused workshops could be applied in other communities to meet STEMM workforce needs. This proceedings of a virtual workshop series summarizes the presentations and discussions from the six public workshops that made up the virtual workshop series and highlights the key points raised during the presentations, moderated panel discussions and deliberations, and open discussions among the workshop participants.
West of Wichita
Author: H. Craig Miner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780700603640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This volume, which presents a "slice-of-life" on the Plains during its early settlement, adds rich detail to our understanding of the struggle for survival in a harsh landscape that tested the hardiest pioneer. Miner concentrates not only on the major economic events of the period—railroad building, Indian raids, the grasshopper invasion of 1874, the blizzard of 1886—but also on the more personal experiences equally important: building sod houses, choosing crops, filing of claims, fighting varmints, and dealing with the deaths of children on the prairie. "Magnificent. . . . A subtle and often moving account of pioneer life. . . . A truly splendid book."—Choice "Regional history at its best. . . . Many of the traditional tales of early hardships—grasshopper plagues, Indian attacks, the stress of loneliness and isolation, drought, blizzards, prairie fires, and the unaccustomed hazards of nature—are retold with vigor and a sense of immediacy. These gritty tales of pioneer persistence and stubbornness are used to illustrate the region's cyclical history of hope and despair. . . . Not the least of Miner's talents is his engaging style. Images are alive, progression of the story lively, and the analysis convincing. This first-rate book is an important addition to the history of Kansas and, more broadly, to the study of western settlement."—American Historical Review
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780700603640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This volume, which presents a "slice-of-life" on the Plains during its early settlement, adds rich detail to our understanding of the struggle for survival in a harsh landscape that tested the hardiest pioneer. Miner concentrates not only on the major economic events of the period—railroad building, Indian raids, the grasshopper invasion of 1874, the blizzard of 1886—but also on the more personal experiences equally important: building sod houses, choosing crops, filing of claims, fighting varmints, and dealing with the deaths of children on the prairie. "Magnificent. . . . A subtle and often moving account of pioneer life. . . . A truly splendid book."—Choice "Regional history at its best. . . . Many of the traditional tales of early hardships—grasshopper plagues, Indian attacks, the stress of loneliness and isolation, drought, blizzards, prairie fires, and the unaccustomed hazards of nature—are retold with vigor and a sense of immediacy. These gritty tales of pioneer persistence and stubbornness are used to illustrate the region's cyclical history of hope and despair. . . . Not the least of Miner's talents is his engaging style. Images are alive, progression of the story lively, and the analysis convincing. This first-rate book is an important addition to the history of Kansas and, more broadly, to the study of western settlement."—American Historical Review
Reclamation Project Data
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Bureau of Reclamation Project Feasibilities and Authorizations
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated: 1959-1966, appendix, and index
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Outstanding Local Partnerships in Community Development Programs and Projects
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Cumulative Supplement to the 1957 Edition of Bureau of Reclamation Project Feasibilities and Authorizations
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
Book Description
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2502
Book Description