EDUCATION, TRAINING & LABOR
Project on Workforce deploying students to analyze and support labor reskilling
For a third year, the cross-Harvard Project on Workforce is dispatching small teams of master’s degree students and recent graduates as summer fellows to work with organizations that are helping workers build new skills. The initiative draws students from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education to take on labor skills challenges that have worsened since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rachel Lipson, the project director, calls the program “a funnel for people to work in workforce development.” The faculty co-director, HKS Professor David Deming, says the summer fellowships “create high-value experiential learning opportunities for our students while also making key contributions to critical public policy issues.” The summer fellowships have deployed students in organizations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and with the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education. |