Resources
Advancing Together: Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Educational Attainment
Educational Attainment Resources
Below is a curated set of resources related to educational attainment in North Carolina. This list will be updated following the Emerging Issues Forum on Feb. 8-10, 2022.
Analysis of North Carolina’s Progress on Educational Attainment
- Educational Attainment Report, myFutureNC, September 1, 2021
- North Carolina’s Leaky Educational Pipeline. Carolina Demography. February 2019.
Career Assessment and Exploration
Data on Educational Attainment for North Carolina
- Data Dashboard. myFutureNC
- Attainment Trends Workbook (NEW). myFutureNC
- County Attainment Profiles. myFutureNC
- County Explorer Tool. myFutureNC
- First in FAFSA tracker. myFutureNC
- NC attainment data. Lumina Foundation
- NC School Report Cards (data on NC K-12 schools, counties and districts). NC Department of Public Instruction
Employer Collaboration
- Trade Pipeline Management Program. NC Chamber
- Sector Strategies. NC Department of Commerce
- Cape Fear Manufacturing Partnership
Financial Assistance for Postsecondary Education
- College Foundation of NC Scholarship Search Tool
- Finish Line Grant Program
- Longleaf Commitment Program
Notable Local Efforts to Strengthen NC’s Educational Attainment
- Local Educational Attainment Collaboratives Initiative, ncIMPACT and myFutureNC
- Anita Brown-Graham, David Brown, Emily Williamson Gangi, Nathalie Santos. BrightSpots: Innovative Efforts to Accelerate Educational Attainment across North Carolina. School of Government The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Feb. 2019.
Work-Based Learning
- Work-Based Learning Navigator. NC Business Committee on Education
- ApprenticeshipNC. NC Community College System
- MENTOR (Searchable database) – find a mentorship program near you