{"id":79288,"date":"2022-03-04T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=79288"},"modified":"2022-03-04T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:06:20","slug":"amazon-boosts-upskilling-opportunities-for-hourly-employees-by-partnering-with-more-than-140-universities-and-colleges-to-fully-fund-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/03\/04\/amazon-boosts-upskilling-opportunities-for-hourly-employees-by-partnering-with-more-than-140-universities-and-colleges-to-fully-fund-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Boosts Upskilling Opportunities for Hourly Employees by Partnering with More Than 140 Universities and Colleges to Fully Fund Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/press.aboutamazon.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/amazon-boosts-upskilling-opportunities-hourly-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amazon Boosts Upskilling Opportunities for Hourly Employees by Partnering with More Than 140 Universities and Colleges to Fully Fund Tuition<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from press.aboutamazon.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwalignc\">Amazon\u00a0employees in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0will benefit from new Career Choice partnerships with\u00a0Southern New Hampshire University, Colorado State University\u2013Global,\u00a0Western Governors University,\u00a0National University, and numerous local universities<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwalignc\">Amazon\u00a0also partners with GEDWorks and Smart Horizons to provide employees with free high school completion and GED preparation, Voxy EnGen and goFLUENT to provide English language proficiency training, and Outlier to provide college preparation courses<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwalignc\">New benefits are part of Amazon\u2019s Career Choice program and move the company closer to meeting its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aboutamazon.com%2Fworkplace%2Fupskilling-commitments&amp;esheet=52588979&amp;newsitemid=20220303005374&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Upskilling+2025&amp;index=1&amp;md5=edb2f89276ee00af95f1598f617ccac5\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">Upskilling 2025<\/a>\u00a0pledge\u2014a\u00a0$1.2 billion\u00a0commitment to upskill more than 300,000\u00a0Amazon\u00a0employees by 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/amazons-employees-can-go-to-college-free-whats-in-it-for-higher-ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amazon\u2019s Employees Can Go to College, Free. What\u2019s in It for Higher Ed?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Abbi Ross<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Amazon\u2019s announcement is an eye-catching development in the yearslong effort across higher education to enroll more adult learners and increase the share of the U.S. population that has some education beyond high school. While the jury\u2019s still out on whether tuition-benefit programs deliver on all their promises, as most are relatively new, they have become an increasingly popular offering for major corporations. Last fall,\u00a0Amazon\u00a0announced a\u00a0$1.2 billion investment\u00a0to expand its efforts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Amazon employees will have choices. They can enroll at a local participating college and take a few courses en route to a certificate or credential, or they can enroll in a full associate- or bachelor\u2019s-degree program<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Boosts Upskilling Opportunities for Hourly Employees by Partnering with More Than 140 Universities and Colleges to Fully Fund Tuition &#8212; from press.aboutamazon.com Excerpt: Amazon\u00a0employees in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0will benefit from new Career Choice partnerships with\u00a0Southern New Hampshire University, Colorado State University\u2013Global,\u00a0Western Governors University,\u00a0National University, and numerous local universities Amazon\u00a0also partners with GEDWorks and Smart Horizons to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,127,150,211,3,436,855,480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-collaboration","category-formal-learning","category-funding-grants","category-higher-education","category-reinvent","category-skills","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79291,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288\/revisions\/79291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}