Policy Priorities

NACE is committed to ensuring successful pathways to education and the workforce. Central to this NACE supports:

  • Policies and practices that promote access to education and careers and the elimination of barriers to opportunities.
  • Funding higher education and ensuring that financial aid for students is available, affordable, accessible, and equitable.
  • Worker rights, conditions, wages, and benefits that provide safe, fair, and healthy outcomes.

NACE advocates, promotes and supports:

Career Development and Readiness

Ensuring career services and career development programs across education and workforce systems.  This includes the integration of career readiness in educational curricula, co-curricular activities and through workforce development and talent management programs.

Skills-Based Education and Hiring

Building educational experiences, training programs, and hiring practices that emphasize skills building and knowledge acquisition that are practical and transferable, including competency development, articulation and assessment.

Experiential Education and Learning

Promoting and expanding experiential learning opportunities to provide for career exploration and to meet the demands of the labor market.  This includes expanded work-based learning programs, paid internships, practicums, apprenticeships, project-based learning, credential obtainment, and continued education.

Global Talent

Expanding pathways and opportunities for global talent to participate in and contribute to our education-to-work pipelines.

Affordable Education

Ensuring that post-secondary education and training is accessible and affordable for all learners.