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CTE
Career and Technical Education (CTE) will open up the doors to what ever your dream is for the future. Through CTE you can explore career opportunities that will prepare you for the 21st Century. Hundreds of career options await you. To get started, check out Utah’s CTE Website.
In the world that we live in today, education is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Completing a certificate or a degree at one of Utah’s colleges or universities will help ensure a productive and fulfilling future. Workers with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $56,788 in 2006; those with a high school diploma earned $31,071.
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Education
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Avg. Income
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Increase
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Drop-out
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$20,873
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High school
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$31,071
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48.9%
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College
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$56,788
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82.8%
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Advanced
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$82,320
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45.0%
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Completing some level of postsecondary education becomes more important each year. Over a life-time, a college degree is generally worth almost a million dollars. That’s money that can be used for saving, for fun, for whatever. The financial benefits of a college education are significant, and they’re very real.
A college education also gives you a broad base of knowledge on which to build. It teaches you to solve more of life’s problems. It gives you future reference points for discussing art, entertainment, politics, and history.< ><–>
Here's a compilation of some recent articles that provide information on the role CTE plays, as well as benefits and impact on society.
Utah Valley University- Business Engagement Strategies
Most of Utah’s higher education institutions fulfill a community college function as part of their overall role assignment. Utah Valley University is no...
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- Investing in career and technical education yields big returns. For example, in Salt Lake City, for every dollar put into CTE programs at Salt Lake Community College there will be a return of $4.30 to the community. Wisconsins technical colleges return a public benefit of $10.65 for every $1 invested...
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Utah’s comprehensive education-to-workforce resource to access information on schools, scholarships, occupations, and prep materials for the SAT, ACT, and AP tests.
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In this newly released report, Mobility Matters, the Center for an Urban Future addresses the benefits of the City
University of New York’s (CUNY) community colleges. While the report provides specific...
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Dec 01
Developed through a project sponsored by AACC, this manual will give community colleges specific metrics that assess how they do in areas such as student progress and outcomes, career and...
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Dec 01
The work of this committee was shared briefly at the last Community College Network meeting in September. The Committee on Measures of Student Success met recently to finalize its recommendations...
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Dec 01
Information technology is radically changing our students’ learning styles, the ability to deliver education differently and opportunity to reduce costs for providing educational programming. In fact, one...
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Jan 04
Tags: HigherEdUtah2020, Planning, Technology
The U.S. Department of Education today announced the six winning states of the Promoting Rigorous Career and Technical Education Programs of Study grants. The grants are aimed at improving...
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Oct 06
Tags: Education, grant, Grants, Pathways
The College Board has just released a report titled "Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education for Society." The report indicates that College graduates do earn significantly more...
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Sep 21
Tags: College Board, Graduation Pays
