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2 The Economic Returns from Higher Education
2 The Economic Returns from Higher Education
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• The number of associate's degrees and certificates awarded has been growing at a substantially faster pace than the number of bachelor's degrees earned. I n the opening presentation of the workshop, Mark Schneider, vice president and institute fellow at the American Institutes for Research and the president of culture and the arts, and improving their well-being, Schneider acknowledged.
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. Examples include airColorado showed that Red Rocks Community Col- frame mechanics, maintenance technicians, electrical lege produced students with the highest average and power transmission installers, construction trade salaries among those who received associates degree workers, communications systems installers, and preciin applied science.
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But in The data also reveal the extent of the differences general, low-paying professions right out of college are in average earnings among those who receive associ- still relatively low-paying ten years after college, said ate's degrees, from about $30,000 a year for associate's Schneider. However, he also acknowledged that studegrees in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, dents who major in the liberal arts can learn skills that and humanities to more than $50,000 for associate's improve their employability, such as how to use and degrees in registered nursing, nursing administration, manage databases, how to do basic statistical analyses, nursing research, and clinical nursing and more than how to use programs like Word and Excel, and how to $60,000 in fire protection (Figure 2-3)
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States could share data, or the federal able to do things rather than sitting in a classroom for government could generate data through the Federal 42 hours is an interesting and fundamentally important Employment Data Exchange System, Social Security change." data, or tax data, but many obstacles would have to be Schneider also pointed to the political opposition overcome to do so. that exists to gathering information about students and In closing, Schneider mentioned some intrigu- outcomes, especially at the federal level.
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