Information Technology Careers for Rural Areas: Results of a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Program

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 64
  In Roundtable Session: Leveraging and Promoting the Use of Technology in Higher Education

Abstract

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act appropriated $2 billion over four years to fund the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT). TAACCCT funded projects are designed to improve career training programs for workers eligible for training under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Workers program, as well as a broad range of other adults. Results of this TAACCCT project suggest that TAACCCT students, relative to students in comparable programs, had an increased likelihood of completing their program; for non-completers, being retained in education; and for non-incumbent completers who entered employment, being retained in employment. However, TAACCCCT students were only slightly more likely to receive a wage increase.

Authors

• Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn, University of Central Florida

• Bonnie Swan, University of Central Florida

• M. H. Clark, University of Central Florida