WAVELENGTH/PILLAR 015 ARTICLES

Labor Market Data Analysis.

Most labor market reports stop at the table. We start where they stop — what the numbers mean for your service area, your portfolio, and the call on your desk. Primary-source reading on BLS, JOLTS, OEWS, and Lightcast, translated into program decisions instead of chart commentary.

LATEST IN THIS PILLAR

Entrepreneurship Beyond Startup Counts: Reading Census Business Dynamics

A guide to business formation, closure and employment change—and separating economic context from evidence about college entrepreneurship programs.

Wavelength·2026-10-04

ARCHIVE— 04 more in this pillar

2026-09-29
Allied Health Capacity: Which Students, Which Years?
How to read completion counts alongside graduate earnings without assuming they describe the same students, years, or training capacity.
2026-09-26
A Job Posting Is an Ad: What Postings Can and Can’t Tell Program Planners
Job postings are fast and specific, but they count ads, not jobs or hires. What the evidence says they reveal, where they mislead, and what to pair them with.
2026-09-22
Where Graduates Work Is Not the Same as Where Jobs Are
A worked Iowa example for using Census QWI and PSEO data without confusing regional jobs, graduate destinations, and learner access.
2026-09-19
Beyond the Employer’s Address: A Guide to Census Workforce Geography
Census workforce data can help colleges build location-based employer partnership strategies by separating where workers live, where they work, and how they move between jobs.

OTHER PILLARS

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Program Development
Concept selection, validation, curriculum strategy, competency frameworks, and pathway design.
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Program Building & Launch
The operating work of getting a program built, staffed, approved, marketed, launched, and sustained.
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Funding, Policy & Compliance
Workforce Pell, grants, WIOA, Perkins, state policy, compliance gates, and the funding rules behind program decisions.
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Employer Partnerships & Work-Based Learning
Employer commitments, apprenticeships, advisory boards, work-based learning, contract training, and placement infrastructure.
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Student Access & Enrollment
Adult learners, outreach, wraparound supports, enrollment patterns, retention barriers, and completion strategy.
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Program Deep Dives
Long-form reads on specific program categories, occupational bets, and vertical opportunities.

Labor Market Data Analysis.

Entrepreneurship Beyond Startup Counts: Reading Census Business Dynamics

Allied Health Capacity: Which Students, Which Years?

A Job Posting Is an Ad: What Postings Can and Can’t Tell Program Planners

Where Graduates Work Is Not the Same as Where Jobs Are

Beyond the Employer’s Address: A Guide to Census Workforce Geography

Evidence-bound workforce intelligence for community colleges.