Educators, Industry Leaders Join Together to Help Fill Workforce Pipeline at Build Up Kansas Instructor Conference
The construction and skilled trades industry leaders came together with the state’s educators at the 4th Build Up Kansas Instructor Conference with one goal in mind: how they can best assist in teaching and preparing the next generation of Kansas’ workforce.
Construction Career Paths Lead to High-Paying Jobs
Through industry-leading curriculum and craft-training material led by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), young women and men are finding ways to enter the workforce at different stages – after high school, with community college or vocational-tech degrees, or after earning a four-year college degree.
Build Up Kansas Helping Fill Workforce Pipeline, Reversing Declines in Rural and Urban Portions of State
For years, business leaders overwhelmingly agree that their No. 1 concern is having the sufficient skilled trade talent to meet workforce demand. Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Kansas and Build Up Kansas have been working to energize the Kansas workforce pipeline, and the results are supporting Kansas’ economic development efforts and creating more opportunities in rural and urban areas that had stagnated.
Build Up Kansas Hosts 3rd Annual Instructor Workshop
Hosted in Wichita, this hands-on workshop trained attendees on how to utilize AGC’s NCCER construction trade materials. Instructors also received training on the NCCER online testing materials for student credentialing. The event brought together instructors and industry experts from across the state to learn and share insights.
Build Up Kansas Supporting Skilled Trade Instructors, January 2024
Learning the skilled construction trades is a true collaboration between student and instructor. Secondary and post-secondary career and technical education instructors say the Build Up Kansas initiative is a valuable partner in that collaboration, bringing together instructors and industry experts from across the state to share best practices and insights.
Build Up Kansas – Bringing Together Industry and Education, December 15, 2023
Construction industry leaders and educators agree on the value of Build Up Kansas as a pipeline for energizing the skilled trade workforce. The initiative supports and connects the secondary and post-secondary skilled trade instructors training Kansans and the industry professionals hiring them.
AGC of Kansas-Build Up Kansas Is the Workforce Development Leader
AGC of Kansas-Build Up Kansas held the Skilled Trades Instructor Workshop in November, hosting industry professionals on the education side as well as those in businesses across the state that employ skilled tradespeople.
Build Up Kansas Hosts the First NCCER Instructor Conference
AGC of Kansas-Build Up Kansas’ inaugural conference drew over 100 skilled trades instructors from high school, community college and technical college programs across the state.
Building You: Construction group focuses on recruiting young people
KWCH-12/CBS anchor Lily Wu interviewed AGC of Kansas Executive Vice President Mike Gibson to discuss efforts to recruit young people to professional careers in construction – a vocation they may not automatically consider.
Building You: Construction industry hiring right now
The work is there. The workers aren’t. That’s the findings reported by KWCH-12/CBS anchor Lily Wu. When she spoke to Jeremy Hill, director of Wichita State University’s Center for Economic Development and Business Research (CEDBR), he confirmed that the construction industry is looking for people to hire, but they’re not finding enough of them.