Community Colleges Are Critical to the Innovation Economy
In The News Piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec. 7, 2023
Shalin Jyotishi published an essay with The Chronicle of Higher Education about the CHIPS and Science Act and the role community colleges play in the innovation economy.
This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “The Research Driven University,” available in the Chronicle Store.
The Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 was more than a piece of legislation meant to fortify the nation’s semiconductor industry. It was a bipartisan, multibillion-dollar re-embrace of American industrial policy that has major implications for how the nation funds research and development, how that R&D leads to job creation, and how we align the development of technology and talent in higher education. Community colleges can and should play an important role in this effort—particularly in job training—and many are already doing so. But they need more support to ensure that CHIPS, which stands for Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science, is successful.