According to new research, Ohio is lagging in producing enough college graduates needed to fill the anticipated 1.7 million new jobs that will be created statewide by 2018, the Dayton Daily News reports. Currently, approximately 36 percent of working-age adults in Ohio have a college degree. In order to meet market demands over the next five years, that number will need to increase to 57 percent, the article said.
The Lumina Foundation, a private organization committed to enrolling and graduating more students from college, indicated that because the number of college graduates is growing at only a slight pace, the education gap in Ohio is not expected to close anytime soon. According to the U.S. Department of Education, an estimated 2 million qualified high school graduates nationwide would not have attended college because of the cost in the last decade, the article said. The public and private sectors must work together to identify improvements and plan for the responsible expansion of Ohio’s workforce development system to combat these alarming statistics. For more, read the full story.
Ohio needs more college graduates to fill new jobs
