JFF Senior Director Deborah Kobes was quoted in a recent Inside Higher Ed article about community colleges’ efforts to recruit women into training and apprenticeship programs that prepare them for jobs in male-dominated fields like the skilled trades and utilities.

“A lot of employers say they want to hire more diverse talent, but they just can’t find that talent,” said Kobes, who is the deputy director of JFF’s Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning. “If you’re a community college or educational institution or training provider that is able to recruit women into your program, then you’ll be turning around or graduating somebody or getting somebody into an apprenticeship program who’s really desirable among employers.”