Entries tagged with Talent Dividend
Michigan's Transitioning Economy
October 25, 2011
Sheri Welch of Crain's Detroit Business details how Michigan's economy continues to lag behind as they attempt to transition from an industrial-based to a knowledge-based economy. Michigan Future President, Lou Glazer, described the problem as, "an economy that was based on…
Advancing Houston's Talent Dividend
October 18, 2011
Lee Fisher, President & CEO of CEOs for Cities, offered keynote remarks at Houston's Talent Dividend meeting. Nearly 60% of a city’s success can be attributed to the percentage of population with a college degree. Increasing Houston’s college attainment rate by one percentage point would realize a
DeVry Study Offers Compelling Evidence for Value of Degree
October 7, 2011
Higher education's economic impact received another strong endorsement thanks to a study commissioned by DeVry Inc. The study illustrated that earnings increased 65 percent for individuals who earned their Bachelor's degree from one of DeVry's three schools. That is a dramatic…
Talent: A City's Greatest Indicator of Economic Success
August 2, 2011
Educational attainment explains 58% of a city's success as measured by per capita income, according to CEOs for Cities' Talent Dividend research. With that in mind, attracting and retaining talent should be a city's top economic priority. In an excerpt from an article on the importance of attracting…
Talent Dividend Drives Future Employment Opportunity
June 21, 2011
According to CEOs for Cities' Talent Dividend research, 58 percent of a city's success, as measured by per capita income, can be attributed to post-secondary degree attainment. An infographic by GOOD further emphasizes the importance of higher education by demonstrating the growing demand for workers with a college degree.…
New Coalition Advocates for College Completion
June 9, 2011
Today, CEOs for Cities joined the National Coalition for College Completion, a diverse, nonpartisan group representing business, civil rights, community-based, student and youth advocacy organizations in support of increasing college completion. As our Talent Dividend cities understand, increasing college attainment and economic development are one and the same. There…
Talent Dividend Prize Draws Attention of White House
May 21, 2011
US Department of Education's Greg Darnieder shares why the White House is paying attention to college attainment efforts in Memphis and cities across the country in this interview with FOX13:
Miami Dade College Launches Innovative Scholarship
March 24, 2011
Under the leadership of Eduardo Padron, Miami Dade College President and CEOs for Cities partner, Miami Dade College released a game-changing scholarship program today. The community college will offer a full scholarship to any newly enrolled student from Miami-Dade county with over a 3.0 high school GPA beginning in fall…
Carol Coletta, President and CEO of CEOs for Cities, joined Excelencia in Education to release the Policy Roadmap for Ensuring America’s Future, a report and set of policy guidelines on increasing higher education degree attainment by Latinos. The report sets a benchmark of 5.5 million Latino degrees by…
CEOs for Cities Launches the Talent Dividend Prize
January 31, 2011
CEOs for Cities opened registration for the Talent Dividend Prize, a three-year competition to increase college attainment in major cities. CEOs for Cities’ research shows that 58 percent of a city’s success, as measured by per capita income, can be attributed to post-secondary degree attainment. Thus, the Talent…
Census Gives Miami Good News & Bad
December 21, 2010
With the 2010 Census now published, stories about how we’ve fared in the first decade of the 21st century are popping up everywhere.
In Miami, where key demographic indicators held steady since 2000, education indicators are the big story. A December 18 Miami Herald article reveals the Miami-Dade metro…
Jobs, Unemployment and Talent
December 2, 2010
An interesting article in the Huffington Post lists the 12 best cities to find a job. If you compare this list to a ranking of cities based on college attainment rates, you would find they correspond fairly well. Seven of the top 12 in college attainment rates are…
Talent Dividend Used to Support Dalls Agenda
November 6, 2010
It's great to see the Talent Dividend used to justify smart actions in cities. The editorial board of the Dallas Morning News points to the $4.6 billion annual dividend Dallas stands to gain if college attainment is increased by just one percentage point. That's the increase in aggregate person…
Boston Sets Bold Goals
July 7, 2010
The recently announced Boston Opportunity Agenda has set specific short term and ambitious goals to increase educational attainment in the city and is holding nonprofits accountable for meeting these goals. The Agenda represents a new city-wide ambition and a major public-private partnership among the City of…
Tulsa Gets Talent
June 30, 2010
The Talent Dividend is being embraced by local and state-wide leadership in Tulsa, OK, as evidenced by the participation of Kathy Taylor, former mayor and current chief of education strategy and innovation for Governor Brad Henry and Tom McKeon, president of Tulsa Community College during a
Small is Beautiful
June 27, 2010
Regional economic growth is highly correlated with the presence of many small, entrepreneurial employers not a few big ones, according to a new analysis by Harvard professors Ed Glaeser and William Kerr. Reported in the latest Harvard Business Review, the analysis found "that cities whose number of 'firms per worker'…
Milwaukee on Talent
June 16, 2010
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Special Report on the city's urgent need for talent adds fuel to the Talent Dividend fire. As the article points out the Milwaukee region as a whole has an average college attainment rate when compared to the largest 50 metropolitan regions, however…
Talent: A National Imperative
June 10, 2010
Caroline Altman Smith of The Kresge Foundation stresses the critical importance of increasing college attainment and offers cities as the solution in her Council on Foundations blog post. "If cities do get serious, creative and collaborative about achieving the Talent Dividend, the collective effects could be…
100 Things in 100 Days
May 21, 2010
With $1 billion at stake, the Memphis Talent Dividend initiative is kicking off with speed. Co-chaired by Kathy Buckman Gibson, chairman of the board for Buckman Laboratories Inc. and Tomeka Hart, president and CEO of Memphis Urban League and commissioner at Memphis City Schools, the initiative is creating a 100-day…
90/90 Ambitions for Higher Ed
April 1, 2010
Lou Glazer, President of Michigan Future, Inc. and presenter at our recent Opportunity Dividend Summit, blogs on the need for higher education and policy makers to focus on increasing completion rates. As high schools have seen success through 90/90 goals (90% graduate from high school and 90% of…
States Commit to College Completion
March 4, 2010
Complete College America, an organization focused on increasing college completion by focusing on state policy change, has just launched a 17-state alliance dedicated to achieving President Obama's 2020 goal of having the world's best-educated adult population. It is exciting to have states tackling this ambitious goal alongside the…
Growing a Talent Dividend
February 24, 2010
While public officials at all levels of government continue to consider a myriad of short-term economic recovery solutions, our President and CEO Carol Coletta, together with regional PNC Financial Services president Beth Wnuck, proposes a more patient and lasting response this week on
The Phoenix Talent Dividend
February 23, 2010
CEOs for Cities recently traveled to Phoenix to introduce city leaders there to the Talent Dividend. A one percentage point gain in college…
3 Forces of Change for Cities to Harness
February 1, 2010
Our collegue Kim Walesh, Chief Strategist for the City of San Jose, highlighted three key forces of change that the city should aim to harness in a presentation to the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce recently.
The three forces, summarized in this recap in the Santa Cruz Sentinel,…
The Jobs Market in the Next Decade
December 30, 2009
I am catching up on my reading and did this little analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics for jobs growth 2008-2018:
Seven of 10 jobs projected to have largest growth in next decade likely will not pay a living wage. Five of those…
Mount Holyoke Recruits AAs
December 4, 2009
Increasing transfer rates from community colleges to four-year institutions may be one strategy your city adopts to achieve its Talent Dividend. If so, the Community College Transfer Initiative and Pathways Program at Mount Holyoke may be of interest. Through these programs, the college has…
Yet Another Case for the Value of Education
October 12, 2009
Here is Ed Glaeser making the case for investment in education as the single factor that best explains the success of cities from 1900 to 2000. Rich nations that fail to invest in education, as shown by his study of Argentina, are bound to lose ground to nations that…
The Sticky City
October 19, 2009
We had the pleasure of curating a panel on talent retention at the Council on Foundations' community foundations conference earlier this month. Framed by the Talent Dividend, The Sticky City conversation focused around creating distinctive places, fostering entrepreneurship, connecting talent in place and messaging with authentic voices.
Here are some…
The Uneducated American
October 9, 2009
We are making the case for talent development in America. So is Paul Krugman in today's NYT.
One Down, 8,001 to Go
October 6, 2009
I just had to share this article from my hometown, Memphis, on County Commissioner James Harvey who, after not finishing college in the traditional timeframe, went back in 2007 and is about to graduate with his bachelor's degree at the age of 47. Shelby County (where Memphis sits) has 132,000…
Spontaneous Animation
June 21, 2009
Imagine that you could animate your streets with the kind of entertainment found on the Ramblas in Barcelona. Now, imagine that the animation has a different purpose -- to teach math, science and foreign languages in exciting and fun ways that are present on the streets. Imagine.
How to Achieve the Talent Dividend
May 12, 2009
If you had $100 billion to fix our schools, what would you do? A surprisingly smart list of suggestions for the education portion of the federal stimulus money is circulating in the education policy world, and Jay Matthews has it in The Washington Post, graded and ready for your…
Unemployment Rates Still Favor Degrees
May 10, 2009
Note the latest unemployment figures. For those with less that high school, unemployment in April was 14.8%. (And those are the people still looking for jobs.) For those with a high school diploma, the rate is 9.3%. For those with some college, the rate is 7.4% And for those with…
Vice President Biden Cites Talent Dividend
April 28, 2009
Speaking to the R.J. Daley Global Cities Forum today in Chicago, Vice President Joe Biden cited the importance of the work of CEOs for Cities on the Talent Dividend. He was using it to make the point that education is one of the most critical investments we…
Connection to Place
April 20, 2009
How do we help mobile talent connect with place? Better yet, our place? This is one of the big questions for cities.
Lavonzell Nicholson and Ishaneka Williams have won a competition for the best business proposal to do just that: help the 23 – 35 year olds who…
A Question on the Value of Talent
April 19, 2009
As the Talent Dividend tour continues, one of the questions we get at every stop is, "With so many lay-offs occurring. why should we be focused on increasing our number of college graduates?"
Some facts in the current Newsweek bolster the answer we always give. Newsweek reports, the unemployment…
Atlanta's Talent Dividend
April 14, 2009
Today, we held our second Talent Dividend Summit in Atlanta where we were joined by a number of VIPs including Mayor Shirley Franklin, Superintendent Beverly Hall, Penny McPhee of the Arthur M. Blank Foundation and other community, corporate and civic leaders. The meeting was convened by Peggy…
The President on the Talent Dividend
February 25, 2009
Excerpts from President Obama's speech to Congress last night related to the Talent Dividend:
"The third challenge we must address is the urgent need to expand the promise of education in America.
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good…
More on Talent
February 12, 2009
Eduardo Padrón, President of Miami Dade College and CEOs for Cities partner, has a compelling piece in Tuesday's Miami Herald on the importance of talent to the nation's economy. From Padron "We reassure ourselves that we are still the greatest country on Earth, with the most creative and…
A Global Perspective on the Big Fix
February 4, 2009
In response to Carol's recent post on NYT Magazine's The Big Fix CEOs for Cities partner Diego Kolsky gives us a global perspective on universal access to higher education:
"As you know I come from Argentina. To this day the university is free to citizens and…
Nancy Zimpher to SUNY
February 3, 2009
Congratulations to CEOs for Cities member Nancy Zimpher on her pending appointment to chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). With a half million students (!) and 64 campuses, Dr. Zimpher will have her very capable hands full. With that many campuses, she may be able to…
And the Big Fix Is... Talent.
February 1, 2009
Read The Big Fix in Sunday NYT Magazine, and you'll find that the answer to our economic woes is more college graduates. Yes, that's right. It's the Talent Dividend, exactly what we've been saying. And it's worth $124 billion to the nation... every single year.
Note writer David Leonhardt's conclusion:
…The Power of Role Models
January 25, 2009
"The Obama Effect" is what researchers are calling it. The performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Obama's nomination disappeared in tests given after Obama's acceptance speech and again after the presidential election. Apparently, the model set by the president helped blacks overcome stereotypes that…
Stimulating Minds
January 11, 2009
From Tom Friedman's column Sunday: "... a bridge is just a bridge. Once it’s up, it stops stimulating. A student who normally would not be interested in science but gets stimulated by a better teacher or more exposure to a lab, or a scientist who gets the funding for…
The Glass Is Half Full at Knowledge Works
January 7, 2009
Here's one organization that believes the glass is half full. Knowledge Works Foundation, in its first email of the year, took note of the ways in which the economy will change over the next ten years. "The news is good," KWF concluded. "Though we are facing a recession and volatility…
Talent Dividend Prize Update: College Pays Off
August 9, 2011
New Report: The College Payoff
Further support of the Talent Dividend from a new report by Anthony Carnevale at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The College Payoff finds that post secondary degrees pay handsomely. In fact, "the difference…
Five Imperatives Hold Key to Louisville’s ‘Futurama’
July 13, 2010
This is an edited version of the keynote address delivered by Carol Coletta in conjunction with the release of The Greater Louisville Project’s 2010 Competitive City Report on June 24.
The Greater Louisville Project and the 2010 Competitive City Report are an important contribution to the work we are all…
Talent Dividend Update No. 8
June 25, 2010
Success Strategies for Increasing Completion
As referenced during the presentation by Stan Jones at the National Talent Dividend Network meeting in New York, there are a number of innovative two-year programs in urban environments with exceptionally high completion rates.
Based on Stan’s research,…
Talent Dividend Tour Update No. 5
January 29, 2010
Which City Will Be #1 in Talent
As we launch our National Talent Dividend Network in partnership with FutureWorks we’re eager to accelerate the achievement of the Talent Dividend in all of the participating cities. With talent explaining 58%…
Talent Dividend Tour Update No. 3
October 27, 2009
A Note from Our President:
Speeding the Change We Need in Cities
Twenty-two. That's how many cities we've visited since March 31 to present the Talent Dividend. Thanks to the Lumina Foundation and DeVry, cross-sector…
Coletta Speaks on Comeback Cities
September 21, 2009
Leaders from a dozen former textile cities in Europe gathered in Tilburg, Netherlands, last week to share lessons learned. CEOs for Cities president and CEO Carol Coletta was asked to comment on their comeback stories and compare them to a U.S. city with its own comeback story.
The…
More Video from the Talent Dividend Tour
July 20, 2009
On a recent stop on the now 30-city Talent Dividend tour (generously sponsored by The Lumina Foundation for Education and, in part, by DeVry Inc.), Brian Payne of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, Charles Bantz at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, and David Dressler with the Center…
Talent Dividend: Video from the Tour
April 24, 2009
The Talent Dividend Tour sponsored by the Lumina Foundation for Education has launched with four successful stops in Memphis, Atlanta, Grand Rapids and Chattanooga. We gathered footage of the Atlanta conversation to offer a glimpse of what we're doing, who we're talking to and the discussions that are emerging.…
Chad Wick on the Talent Dividend
February 11, 2009
Chad Wick, President and CEO of the Knowledgeworks Foundation, discusses the role of two-year colleges in achieving the Talent Dividend.
City Dividends Conference Call
December 16, 2008
Missed the meeting?
CEOs for Cities members who were unable to attend our National Meeting in Chicago last month will have an opportunity to be briefed on the City Dividends initiative by and ask questions of Joe Cortright and Carol Coletta during a special members-only call. Members are also welcome…
University Circle Keynote: Cities are the Solution
November 18, 2008
Old assumptions about cities are under assault, and new ones are in play, demonstrating that cities like Cleveland, where CEOs for Cities President and CEO delivered the keynote address for University Circle Inc.'s Annual Meeting, are not the problem. Cities are the solution. Read the full text of Coletta's remarks…
City Dividends Released
November 7, 2008
CHICAGO (Nov. 6, 2008) Despite tough economic times, America’s 51 largest cities have the opportunity to collectively realize $166 billion in much-needed new wealth by focusing on performance improvements in three key areas: increasing the educational attainment of their citizens, reducing the number of vehicle miles traveled per person each…
Two days after the Presidential election, CEOs for Cities will convene in Chicago for a special one-day meeting to challenge the President-elect and his transition team to establish a new era of cooperation between the Federal government and America's cities.
At a national press conference during the Nov.…