Workforce Development

Sep 13, 2019

First in Future: President of Central Piedmont Community College Dr. Kandi Deitemeyer

Summary: Across North Carolina, our 58 community colleges are designed to be within a few minutes’ drive of every person in the state. They have a broad core suite of… 

Sep 12, 2019

First in Future: President and Board Chair of the John M Belk Endowment MC Belk Pilon

Summary: If you were making a shortlist of family names associated with Charlotte, “Belk” would have to be near the top. Beginning in 1888, the Belk’s started a small retail… 

Sep 10, 2019

First in Future: Mayor of Charlotte Vi Lyles

Summary: A 2015 report on economic mobility in the U.S. caught Charlotte’s attention. The report looked at the likelihood that someone whose parents’ income ranked in the bottom 20% would… 

Sep 9, 2019

First in Future: Director of UNC Charlotte Urban Institute Jeff Michael

Summary: Charlotte is a bigger city than Atlanta or Raleigh. It’s the 16th largest metro area in the country. It is the fastest growing city in the country for millennials… 

Sep 3, 2019

First in Future: Dean of Metropolitan College at Johnson C. Smith University Laura Colson McLean

Summary: The best estimate of the My Future NC Commission for the number of people in North Carolina who started college but then dropped out is 905,000. In many ways,… 

Aug 20, 2019

First in Future: Director of the Mountain Area Workforce Board Nathan Ramsey

Summary: We are living in strange economic times. Right now we have a greater number of jobs in the US – 7 million – than we have people officially looking… 

May 22, 2018

First in Future: Head of Rural Initiative for UNC School of Medicine Dr. Robert Bashford

Summary:  Seventy out of eighty rural North Carolina counties are described as “medical deserts”, meaning they have no primary care doctors. Finding solutions to rural health care is a big,…