For some, the holidays are all about food, football, family reunions and reflecting on the gifts for which we are most thankful. As I prepare to celebrate in the days to...
Build Your Future
Build Your Future is an initiative sponsored by NCCER with the mission to narrow the skills gap by guiding America’s youth and displaced workers into opportunities for advanced education and training, leading to long-term rewarding careers in construction. BYI seeks to:
- Make career and technical education a priority in secondary schools
- Shift the public’s negative perception about careers in the construction industry to reflect the wide range of professions available
- Provide a path from ambition, to training, to job placement as a craft professional
Last Friday marked a momentous occasion for our country, as a group of craft professionals bolted the spire for the new World Trade Center into place 1,776 feet above the ground...
Construction careers have received their fair share of bad press over the years. As a result, it is not uncommon for today’s student to come away from the classroom or the...
Recovery is all around us. The construction industry is revving up again, driven by a hefty backlog of work and a fresh dose of infrastructure revitalization. And just as many had...
Gainesville, FL – The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER)’s Build Your Future (BYF) campaign is excited to announce it has teamed up with the...
The idea that a four-year degree is the only path to success in America is an outdated notion. Numerous recent studies have found that our educational system as it currently...
If you read my post about the Construction Education Foundation of North Texas, you might recall I recognized this organization as a pocket of excellence. In this post I would...
The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) has some very interesting videos on YouTube about what it is like to be in the construction industry. ...
