A3 Education & Workforce Symposium
An Event for All Advocates along the Educational Pipeline
November 8, 2023
10 AM – 4 PM
UNC-Asheville: Highsmith Student Union
This event has passed.
Check out the news coverage of the event at WLOS ABC 13 by clicking on the image below. You can also access the master slide deck and read testimonials from some of our attendees.
Aligning, Aspiring and Achieving to meet our Land of Sky Education and Workforce Goals!
Who should come?
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- Employers – Learn more about how to get connected to schools and postsecondary entities to provide input and gain access to the skills your future workforce is acquiring during training.
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- Educators and Administrators from Early Education thru Postsecondary Education – Discover innovative and collaborative practices happening across the region that you can scale in your own organization.
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- Community-Based Organizations – Tap into a network of collaborators that can help your organization enhance its impact on our workforce preparedness.
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- Government – As the top employers in our region, learn more about how training providers are preparing your future workforce and driving local economic vitality as well as learn how you can help strengthen your community’s efforts in this work
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, you are invited to the region’s first Educational and Workforce Symposium. The A3 Event (Align, Aspire, Achieve) will focus on our region’s innovative practices for educational attainment, and was planned by six local organizations alongside two statewide organizations.
In addition to hearing from 20 local organizations that are deploying successful strategies along the full academic continuum, attendees of A3 will also learn about effective advocacy techniques to support early education through postsecondary education, how to bridge connections between employers and educators and what the data is showing us in terms of our region’s strengths and opportunities to improve our current and future labor pool climate. This event is a culmination of the planning team’s successful completion of the NC Workforce Development Leadership Initiative which is an intensive, six-month professional training program. Graduates of the program received the professional designation of Certified Workforce Developer by the National Association of Workforce Boards.
When: November 8, 2023, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Where: Highsmith Student Union, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Directions:
Please click here for driving directions. Enter “281 Edgewood Rd, Asheville, NC, 28804” into your GPS/map app, as it’s the closest address to the recommended parking lot. Please see the campus map below for detailed information on the event location and parking locations.
Shuttles:
Shuttles will be available starting at 9:30 a.m., and wayfinding signs to Highsmith Student Union will be posted.
Visitor Parking Pass – REQUIRED:
It’s very important to fill out your visitor parking pass from UNC-A beforehand and to print it so you can display it on your vehicle’s dashboard.
Please click here to read our press release for this event.
Thank you to our sponsors for the A3 Education & Workforce Symposium!
