A Fast Track to Filling the Workforce Pipeline

21 Sep 2022

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As more and more baby-boomers take early retirement during the pandemic and the opioid crisis contributes to national skills gap problems, a Virginia community college is coming up with innovative ways to speed up the training of badly needed workers.

An hour south of the nation’s capital, Germanna Community College (GCC) is tackling two of America’s most critical workforce challenges in the acute shortage of healthcare professionals and the ever-increasing demand for skilled cybersecurity workers.

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