Aug 17, 2018

Rebecca Tippett presented recent research at the NC Chamber’s annual Conference on Education on August 15. She analyzed recent data to identify opportunities for North Carolina leaders to address educational attainment gaps that may hinder the state’s job growth. Tippett is Director of Carolina Demography at UNC’s Carolina Population Center.

Higher Education Works Foundation reports:

“North Carolina used to have people without jobs.  Now it has jobs without people, and leaders from business and academia laid out the challenges of filling those jobs yesterday at the NC Chamber’s annual Conference on Education.

REBECCA TIPPETT, Director of Carolina Demography at UNC-Chapel Hill, laid out both the opportunities and the challenges for the state’s workers and educators.

The state’s total number of jobs is projected to grow 13% over 10 years, Tippett said, but the fastest growth is among jobs that require more education: 14% among jobs requiring an associate degree, 15% among jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree, and 17% among jobs requiring a master’s degree or higher.”

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