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Retraining Dislocated Workers in the Community College: Identifying Factors for Persistence

Workforce 2000, Work and Workersfor the Twenty-First Century, an influential 1987 report by William B. Johnston and Arnold E. Packer published by the Hudson Institute, forecasts an American workplace in which only the highly skilled worker can earn enough to support a family. Of all the new jobs created between 1984 and 2000, the authors predict, more than half will require postsecondary education. Jobs available for those with a high school education or less will shrink from 18% of the jobs in 1987 to a predicted 14% share by the year 2000. In contrast, only 22% of all occupations required a college degree in 1986 (Johnston & Packer, 1987). The workplace will also become less stable. Today's average high school graduate will change jobs four to six times and change careers two to three times throughout his or her work life. These changes will not be the result of job hopping or personal choice but of technological and economic changes that displace employees from one career field while opportunities expand in other fields (Brock, 1991). In order to remain employed, the worker of the future must be highly skilled, flexible, and capable of learning new technological skills. The high-skill job demands projected in Workforce 2000 have greatly influenced educational planners. But, in view of the surfeit of low-skilled service industry jobs (such as fast-food server or janitor), are the highskill predictions of Johnston and Packer accurate? Rumberger and Levin (1989) argue that predictions of job requirements overstate increases in educational requirements because predicted change is based upon the requirements of only the fastest growing jobs. Rapidly growing occupations generally require above average education levels but usually employ small numbers of workers and generate few