Apprenticeship 2.0

In  this episode, Joe  chats with   Analisa Archer, Senior Director of Policy at  EducationNC ; Caroline Sullivan, Executive Director of the North Carolina Business Committee for Education; and Dr. Chris Harrington, Director of  ApprenticeshipNC , North Carolina's State Apprenticeship Agency .   Together, they discuss   North Carolina's rise as an apprenticeship leader, the growth of apprenticeshi...

In  this episode, Joe  and guest co-host Dr. Anastasia Wickham, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Reach University, chat with  Kristi Kirschner,  Board President of  edwell ;  Tamika Bartley,  Success Coach Coordinator, Registered Apprenticeship Program, Sheldon Independent School District in Texas; and  Alexandra Perez, Student at Reach University and AVID Tutor Manager transitioning into the...

In  this episode, Joe  chats with  Glen Disque, Director of the Montana Department of Labor & Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program; Madeline Boehm, Registered Apprenticeship Program Manager at Health Career Advancement Program (H-CAP); and Zach Boren, Senior Vice President at Apprenticeships for America .   Together, they discuss   the success and growth of Registered Apprenticeship in Monta...

In  this episode, Joe  chats with John Colborn, Executive Director of Apprenticeships for America.   Together, they discuss   John's journey in the apprenticeship space,  pay-for-performance strategies such as the Trump administration funding for the Pay-for-Performance Incentive Payments Program,  AFA's grading of the administration on its efforts to  grow  apprenticeship, the impact of apprentic...

In  this episode, Joe  and guest co-host D oug Lederman ,  Principal of Lederman Advisory Services and  Co-founder and former Editor of  Inside Higher Ed , chat with  Colleen Flaherty, Senior Editor of Special Content at  Inside Higher Ed , and Sara Weissman,  Senior  Reporter at  Inside Higher Ed .  Together, they discuss  the  most important developments in higher ed today, how higher ed leaders...

In honor of National Apprenticeship Week, Joe tees up a handful of memorable clips from past episodes of Apprenticeship 2.0. Hear insights from Kathleen deLaski, Founder and Board Chair of the Education Design Lab; Dr. Mallory Dwinal-Palisch, Co-Founder of Reach University and Oxford Teachers Academy, and current President of Craft Education at Western Governors University; Alison Griffin, Princip...

In this episode, Joe and guest co-host Dr. Anastasia Wickham, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Reach University, chat with Matt Sigelman, President of the Burning Glass Institute, and Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University. Together, they discuss the intersection of labor and education marke...

In this episode, Joe chats with Alison Griffin, Principal with FutureRise, and Jeff Selingo, higher education strategist and longtime journalist. Together, they discuss whether higher education and the workforce are due for radical realignment, what's driving the shift toward apprenticeship and work-based learning, evolving student perspectives on career pathways and how institutions are respondin...

In this episode, Joe and guest co-host Laura Hopkins, Executive Director of the Healthcare Training Fund, chat with Dr. Metoka Welch, Executive Dean of the Apprenticeship College of Health (ACH); Dr. Anastasia Wickham, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Reach University; and Melody McKee, Director of Behavioral Strategy at the Healthcare Training Fund. Together, they discuss the impetus and ori...

In this episode, Joe chats with Heather Terenzio, Director of the Incubation practice at JFFLabs, and Carlos Vazquez, Founder of GoSprout. Together, they discuss the upfront questions to answer when starting an apprenticeship program; how startups should think about compliance and governance when launching and growing an apprenticeship program; building apprenticeship into a lean startup, without...

In this episode, Joe and guest co-host Dr. Eric Dunker, Chief Engagement Officer at Reach University, chat with Diego Mariscal, Founder and CEO of 2Gether-International (2GI); Philip Minardi, Co-founder of BuildWithin; and Dr. Susan Crystal-Mansour, Interim Executive Director at the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. Together, they discuss apprenticeship pathways for executive...

In this episode, Joe and guest co-host Dr. Eric Dunker, Chief Engagement Officer at Reach University, chat with Ivy Love, Senior Policy Analyst in the Center on Education and Labor at New America; Laura Love, Senior Vice President, Work-Based Learning, at Strada Education Foundation; and Michael Horn, Author, Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Co-founder of the Clayt...

In this episode, Joe chats with Matthew McKenney, President and CEO of JobForward. Together, they discuss Matt's background as a welder and a CNC machinist apprentice, how that background connects to the work JobForward is doing now, the organization's customizable-but-scalable approach to apprenticeship, overcoming complexities and upfront barriers in apprenticeship program development, how Matt...

In this episode, Joe and guest co-host Dr. Holly Smith, Executive Director and Vice President of Apprenticeship Degree and Design at Reach's National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree, chat with Courtney Kinkade, Vice President of Organizational Learning and Workforce Strategy at TRIMEDX, and Danielle McGeary, First Vice President of Healthcare Technology Management at the Association for the A...

In this episode, part two of our two-part year-end roundtable series, Joe and guest co-host, journalist Paul Fain, chat with three of the top reporters in the apprenticeship space: Colleen Connolly, freelance journalist and regular contributor to Work Shift ; Rebecca Griesbach, Senior Data Analyst at the Cowen Institute and former reporter for AL.com and Alabama Education Lab ; and Kelly Field, fr...

In this episode, part one of our two-part year-end roundtable series, Joe chats with the top executives at four funders in the apprenticeship space: Keith Witham, President and CEO of Ascendium Education Group; Ruth Watkins, President of Postsecondary Education at Strada Education Foundation; Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO of the Lumina Foundation; and Julie Lammers, President and CEO of Ameri...

In this first-ever Between the Lines edition of Apprenticeship 2.0, Joe, Kiko, and Reach University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Dr. Anastasia Wickham discuss several recent news articles on apprenticeship and higher education. Joe, Kiko, and Anastasia discuss the potential impacts of these reports amid an evolving education environment in the United States. The articles are as follows: Read...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Kiko chats with Christopher Carter, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Approyo. Together, they discuss Bloomberg Intelligence's projections for a rapidly growing AI market, the importance of AI literacy in apprenticeship and internships, how AI can help employers foster more effective apprenticeship opportunities, how companies like Apprenti are deploying innovati...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Joe and Kiko chat with Kelly Field, freelance journalist and author of The Slow Rise of the Apprentice Degree ; Ryan Craig, Managing Director at Achieve Partners; and Dr. Pam Eddinger, President of Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts. Together, they discuss the impetus behind Kelly's article, the National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree ' s en...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Kiko and guest host Dr. Eric Dunker, Reach University's Chief Advancement Officer and Senior Advisor to the National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree, chat with Nicholas Wyman, Founder and CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation (IWSI) America. Together, they discuss how Nick's chef background led to him becoming an apprenticeship champio...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Joe and Kiko chat with Shonda Anderson, Director of Internships and Apprenticeships at the Kansas Department of Commerce; Alise Martiny, Vice President of the Operative Plasterers' & Cement Masons' International Association; and Dr. Jennifer Seymour, Vice President of General Education and Applied Technologies at WSU Tech. Together, they discuss the recent su...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Joe and Kiko are joined by Dr. Eric Dunker, Co-founder of the National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree and Chief Advancement Officer at Reach University, and Dr. Anastasia Wickham, Provost and Chief Acadmic Officer at Reach. Together, they listen and react to four clips from a panel from the International Convening for the Apprenticeship Degree (ICAD) 20...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Joe and Kiko listen and react to three clips from a panel from the International Convening for the Apprenticeship Degree (ICAD) 2025 at the University of Oxford. The ICAD 2025 panel, titled Global Perspectives: The Impact of Political Leadership to Scale Apprenticeship Degrees, was moderated by Luke Rhine, Vice President of Postsecondary Success at the Rodel...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Joe and Kiko chat with Jim Rosapepe, Maryland State Senator, and Jake Hsu, Baltimore-based Tech Investor and Entrepreneur. Together, they discuss how apprenticeship benefits Maryland's economy; the state's progress toward its goal of establishing complete apprenticeships for high school graduates; reimagining apprenticeship in the AI era; barriers to growing...

In this episode of Apprenticeship 2.0, Joe and Kiko chat with Shalin Jyotishi, Founder and Managing Director of New America's Future of Work and Innovation Economy Initiative , where he specializes in the intersection of science, workforce, and industrial policy and their implementation. Together, they discuss the White House's AI action plan and what that could mean for apprenticeship; the potent...