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October 2012

Institute in the Press
Career advice from Apollo Research Institute Vice President and Managing Director Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti was published in TheLadders and Examiner.com.
Apollo Research Institute’s study The Great Divide was the topic of a three-part Huffington Post series on workforce skill gaps.

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New research
Family members, friends, faculty, college staff, and coworkers make up adult students’ support systems. Three reports titled Degrees of Difference illustrate the challenges and support systems of adult college students in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Read more.

Sixty-six percent of employers think that Houston is moving in the right direction in terms of opportunities for business and the workforce. The study Life in the 21st-Century Workforce explores employer and worker perspectives on the education and skills needed for career success. Read more.

Over the next decade, workplace automation will progress well beyond car-building robots. Organizations will need workers to apply judgment and logic to digital systems and their output. Computational thinking is one of 10 future work skills identified by Institute for the Future for Apollo Research Institute. Read more.

Women may have a higher opinion of women leaders than men do. Of more than 3000 managers we surveyed, women rated women leaders higher than male managers did on 10 leadership attributes and 10 leadership skills. Read other facts about women in the workplace.

Institute on the road
Apollo Research Institute was featured in an OECD panel on the future of education and work.
 
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Vice President and Managing Director of Apollo Research Institute, served as a panelist on the Future of Education and Work session at the OECD General Conference Attaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education in Paris, France, September 17-19.

Left to right: Larry Israelite, PhD, Vice President and Manager, Human Resource Development, Liberty Mutual; Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Vice President and Managing Director, Apollo Research Institute; Greg Long, Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness, GP Strategies; Ann Stott, Vice President, Learning, Xerox
 
CLO Breakfast Club
Apollo Research Institute Vice President and Managing Director Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti served as a panelist at the 2012 Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Breakfast Club event, The Learning Economy: Development That Drives Results, in Boston, September 13. The next CLO Breakfast Club events are in San Francisco, October 4; New York, October 18; and Washington, DC, October 25.

Left to right: Gary Walker, Michelle Newton, Lamar Grant, Keri Ireland, Bryan Baldwin, Dr Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Jeremy Cronemeyer, Michael Aiken, Stephanie Cox, and Amy Goggins at the Cobb Chamber of Commerce event.
 
Cobb Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Vice President and Managing Director of Apollo Research Institute, presented Careers 3.0: Convergence of Education, Work and Careers at the Cobb Chamber of Commerce Business University Seminar in Marietta, Georgia, September 12.

Staffing World 2012
Women and the Future of Employment and Leadership will be the topic of a presentation by Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Vice President and Managing Director of Apollo Research Institute, at Staffing World 2012 organized by the American Staffing Association in Las Vegas, October 9-11.

Apollo Group, Inc. through its subsidiaries, University of Phoenix, Apollo Global, College for Financial Planning, and Institute for Professional Development, has established itself as a leading provider of higher education programs for working adults.

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