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UpSkill America’s Upskilling Playbook is a strategic guide for organizations to build, scale, and integrate skills-based workforce development initiatives that drive business performance and career growth.
In Summer 2024, Aspen Digital assembled a diverse group of experts and practitioners—from technologists to historians, artists to philosophers—to imagine the mid- and longer-term implications and effects of AI. How might AI remake societies in the next 50 years? And crucially, what can we do now to shape the kind of future we’ll share together?
Our society is in a moment of transition.The effects of climate change are harming people and communities across our country and the globe. These effects will only worsen in the decades to come. The Higher Ed Climate Action Plan provides a roadmap to support comprehensive action across higher education and outlines recommendations for different stakeholders to catalyze and scale these efforts across the country.
