We are excited to welcome and announce that Melissa Goldberg has joined the CSW team as the Director – Competencies & Credentials. Melissa will help lead, develop, and manage CSW’s portfolio of work centered on dramatically expanding the use of competencies and non-degree credentials within learning and talent management systems to increase economic mobility for low-wage workers and address racial disparities.
For more than 20 years, Melissa has advised state policy makers, industry executives and college leaders on leveraging the strengths of these sectors to improve outcomes for students, workers, and businesses. She has counseled community college workforce leaders on improving student outcomes, facilitated state and regional strategic planning efforts, authored studies of effective workforce development practices, and provided technical assistance to foundations, federal agencies, businesses, and community colleges across the country.
“I’m delighted Melissa will provide leadership as CSW contributes to developing and scaling innovations in the use of competencies and credentials to increase educational and employment success,” CSW President and CEO Larry Good said. “Melissa brings the background, skills and values to help us work this big agenda from multiple angles and through many partnerships.”
Melissa’s work has taken her to national consulting organizations, Volta Learning Group and Workforce Strategy Center, as well as higher educational institutions. At Southern New Hampshire University she leveraged her research to inform the development of College for America, a set of online, competency-based certificate and degree programs, targeted to working adults. She also spent eight years leading workforce development and business outreach at community colleges in the New York metropolitan region.
Melissa received her MPA in Public Policy Analysis from New York University’s Wagner School for Public Service and her BA in International Affairs and Spanish from the University of Maine.
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