“In the end, our ability to keep and grow jobs in my community, and in this nation, is directly related to our ability to provide a skilled workforce.”— Derek Kilmer, ncsl.org
“This spring I met with a woman studying nursing at Tacoma Community College. She was balancing school, a part time job, and a family. She told me that she was struggling with the costs of college, books, child care, and everything else. But she told me, as she approached her graduation, that her tim…”— Derek Kilmer, ncsl.org
“Our community colleges are important to training and retraining the workforce of today and tomorrow.”— Derek Kilmer, ncsl.org
“We often hear that success is ‘all about the people you know’ — as if it’s just a matter of equal-opportunity relationship building. We rarely talk about how one knows them, or about the privilege that has become a prerequisite to knowing the right people. I sometimes get calls and emails from frien…”— Darren Walker, nytimes.com